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Expand Up @@ -43,10 +43,34 @@ Nushell provides support for these bitwise operators:

## Brackets

TODO

### `(` and `)`

### `[` and `]`
The brackets can be used to make [lists](types/basic_types/list.md).
```nu
~> [ 1, 2, 3 ]
╭───┬───╮
│ 0 │ 1 │
│ 1 │ 2 │
│ 2 │ 3 │
╰───┴───╯
```

### `{` and `}`
The braces can be used to make [records](types/basic_types/record.md) and [closures](types/basic_types/closure.md).
```nu
~> { a: 1, b: 2 }
╭───┬───╮
│ a │ 1 │
│ b │ 2 │
╰───┴───╯
```

### `(` and `)`
The parentheses can be used to denote sub-expressions.
```nu
~> # This would fail without parentheses
~> { a: ('aaa' | str length), b: 2 }
╭───┬───╮
│ a │ 3 │
│ b │ 2 │
╰───┴───╯
```