It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.

In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.

Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.

Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?

Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.

Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.

Even if you aren't in doubt, consider the mental welfare of the person who has to maintain the code after you, and who will probably put parens in the wrong place.