Aside from being used in function calls, parentheses ( ) can also be used to group a phrase of code to override the precedence of various operators. Parentheses are also required in some statements, most notably if statements. Parentheses take the general form:
(expression)
The expression within the parentheses is evaluated and returned. Here are some examples:
if (x == y) { // Syntactically required for if statement trace("x and y are equal"); // Required for the function call } (5 + 6) * 7 // Force a nonstandard order of operation (x >= 100) || (y <= 50) // Parentheses not required but added for legibility x >= 100 || y <= 50 // No parentheses...a little harder to read
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