What are these brackets? ()

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#1

I saw many people doing this:

Nest = (Nest or 1)

What is the point of the brackets? They could just write

Nest = Nest or 1

I also saw people doing these:

repeat
    local MyVar = true

    for i = 1, 10 do
        i += 1
        local random_num = math.random(1, 5)

        if random_num == 3 then
            local MyVar = false
            break
        end
    end

until (not MyVar or i == 10)

People also use them in if statements.

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#2

You’ll almost always use () for organizing your code with lots of math, CFrame, Color3, Vector3, and some other items. Using () is not always needed unless you’re doing some pretty complex CFrameing, but other than that, Roblox’s systems will almost always automatically add these brackets for you when needed. Nothing to stress about!

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#3

two reasons, grouping, and organization

In some cases people do it just to show their intent for the if statement (organization)
In other cases its to group multiple (not) (or) or (and) for the if statement to work properly

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