you're missing the point, Bernie.. I've never seen anyone try to mix-n-match 
parens and pattern searches.. I have no idea what will happen, without 
testing it :-)

off the top of my head, I'd guess that (8).. might work, and (8..) would 
error, or that both would error.. but I've never given the concept a single 
thought, in 30 years

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"Bernie van't Hof"  wrote in message 
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So their use should produce an error.

On 26/10/17 10:37 pm, Steven Green wrote:
> using the parens for math is not the same as using parens in a pattern 
> search 


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