The suggestion in this section is not to use parenthesis for builtins and builtin-like functions.
I’m not sure why differentiating between builtins and functions is particularly useful, but I don’t object to the idea and found it easy to get used to.
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PBP: 003 Subroutines and Variables
Sunday, May 11th, 2014The item in this category is not to separate the parenthesis from a function call by a space. This is sort of the converse of the last practice, and needed to help show a function call from a control structure.
I find this good advice, too, for the reasons given.
