Antoine Pitrou added the comment:
> Bike-shedding here... why "(...)"? Is it common to use round brackets
> for this purpose? In English-speaking countries, it is usual to use
> square brackets for editorial comments, including ellipsis "[...]".
Ah, really? French uses "[...]" but I thought English-speaking people,
being different, used "(...)". So I'll change it.
> Either way, if you wanted to be more Unicode aware, you could save two
> characters by using \N{HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS} "(…)" as the default.
I'd rather stay on the ASCII side of things here.
(also, the ellipsis character doesn't often look nice)
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