Apparent advantage is the better readability of the function call.

"We develop trust across the miles and distrust around the corner."

"Even as he took his first step forward disappointment faded from those about him, and smiles wreathed every face."

It was difficult, as quite all my books are in italian ;) I took the nearest one I found in english (I have many of them).

"The rot13 encryption is an extremely weak encryption scheme designed to obscure text."

(please pardon my pseudo-tex):

"From \SS 2.2.3 it is clear that in a disk galaxy such as our own, we expect $\Phi_{eff} \propto z^2$ only for values of $z$ for which $\rho_{disk}(z) \simeq constant$, i.e., for $z\simless300$\ pc."

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KStars: A desktop planetarium for KDE

"Without warning, Agammemnon shot Vergyl back into the subzero,pressureless void, while Juno simultaneously pulsed her pain amplifiers."

"The arrangement worked so well that Colin Irwin, who reported on the tour, commented that Mike and the others were very keen to stay together, permanently; indeed after the tour, the group was to continue to record and perform with Mike."

"Sets the ZmodemFileOption property to zfWriteProtect." Yeah, well, I'm at work.

Die erste Flora, die durchgängig mit dichotomen Schlüsseln ausgestattet ist, war "Flore francoise" von Lamarck (1778).

Er erlernte die Kunst, Pomaden ausuwaschen, Infusionen herzustellen, zu filtrieren, zu konzentrieren, zu klarifizieren und zu rektifizieren.