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    Quote Originally Posted by camel-man View Post
    do they accomplish the exact same thing?
    Yes.
    To me it is clearer without brackets.
    On the other hand, what the other use proposed seems to make you pass one parameter less.

    EDIT: But think of how clumsy all this bracket story starts to become, as the dimension of the array increases.
    Last edited by std10093; 01-13-2013 at 05:03 PM.
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