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| I am in favour of John's view.  I always getting caught by special
| characters ([=~#]) always being special and having to quote them which
| makes commands look really ugly and less readable sometimes. 

The only such character I've had problems with is '='.  Rc and make are
like  csh and uucp. :-) 

But back to lists... Wouldn't it be nice if this were legal?

	x=(1
	   2
	   3)

(no backslashes) Then you could easily comment out parts.