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On 02/09/17 18:49, Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:

> One thing you can do with parentheses that you can't do with brackets is 
> replace a mapping function with a constant array. It's possible that 
> this also influenced Ichbiah's decision.

I thought this was the actual reason, as read here in some long 
forgotten thread...