Bracket or brace?
Michael Mutschler
Hi
I don't know how to call these (,[,{,},],): brackets or braces? Who of you can help me? I need it for my documentation.
bye Michael
Chris Marriott
In article <661514$1...@zdi.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>, Michael
Mutschler <muts...@track.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de> writes
>I don't know how to call these (,[,{,},],): brackets or braces? Who of you can
>help me? I need it for my documentation.
I'd suggest:
(...) = parentheses
[...] = brackets
{...} = braces
or, if you prefer, "round brackets", "square brackets", "curly brackets"
:-)
Chris
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Andrew Tucker
This is highly subjective, but I would go with:
( - left paren
) - right paren
[ - left square bracket
] - right square bracket
{ - left curly brace
} - right curly brace
HTH
Michael Mutschler (muts...@track.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de) wrote:
: Hi
:
: I don't know how to call these (,[,{,},],): brackets or braces? Who of you can help me? I need it for my documentation.
:
: bye Michael
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Michael Mutschler wrote in message
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>Hi
>I don't know how to call these (,[,{,},],): brackets or braces? Who of you
can help me? I need it for my documentation.
terms with examples of each in your 'preface' (like most books do) so
there's no misunderstanding.
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On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, John A. Grant wrote:
->>Hi
->>I don't know how to call these (,[,{,},],): brackets or braces? Who of you
->can help me? I need it for my documentation.
-> You've already got good suggestions for the names. I would define the
-> terms with examples of each in your 'preface' (like most books do) so
-> there's no misunderstanding.
Isn't the general practice:
() = parentheses
[] = brackets
{} = braces?
and then, what are these jobey-doo's: < > ?
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< > are often referred to as "angle brackets". In the context of C/C++ they
are less/greater than operators. As far as ISO8859-1 (Latin 1) is concerned,
they are "less/greater than sign".
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Mark H. Wood
In article <661514$1...@zdi.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>, muts...@track.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de (Michael Mutschler) writes:
> Hi
>
> I don't know how to call these (,[,{,},],): brackets or braces? Who of you can help me? I need it for my documentation.
( ) parentheses (often abbreviated "parens").
[ ] brackets.
{ } braces or "curly braces".
< > (in languages that use these as paired delimiters) brokets (i.e.
"broken brackets").
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James D.A. Christopher wrote in message ...
>() = parentheses
>[] = brackets
>{} = braces?
>and then, what are these jobey-doo's: < > ?
>--------------
<> = carets
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Helmut Leitner
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>
> "Matt Gradwohl" <mat...@msn.com.---> wrote:
>
> >James D.A. Christopher wrote in message ...
> >>() = parentheses
> >>[] = brackets
> >>{} = braces?
>
> >>and then, what are these jobey-doo's: < > ?
> >>--------------
> > <> = carets
>
>
> Every character you could ever think of, and thousands others, are
> identified at www.unicode.org .
Right. Unicode:
[] ... square brackets (left, right)
{} ... curly brackets (left, right)
<> ... angle brackets (left pointing, right pointing)
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Scott Hill
James D.A. Christopher <jchr...@U.Arizona.EDU> wrote in article
<Pine.A41.3.96.971203...@aruba.u.arizona.edu>...
> On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, John A. Grant wrote:
>
> ->>Hi
you
> ->can help me? I need it for my documentation.
> -> You've already got good suggestions for the names. I would define
the
> -> terms with examples of each in your 'preface' (like most books do)
so
> -> there's no misunderstanding.
>
> Isn't the general practice:
>
> [] = brackets
> {} = braces?
>
> and then, what are these jobey-doo's: < > ?
> is a Greater Than.
< is a Less Than.
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"Matt Gradwohl" <mat...@msn.com.---> wrote:
>James D.A. Christopher wrote in message ...
>>() = parentheses
>>[] = brackets
>>{} = braces?
>>and then, what are these jobey-doo's: < > ?
>>--------------
> <> = carets
< and > are not carets, ^ is a caret.
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Matt Gradwohl wrote:
> >and then, what are these jobey-doo's: < > ?
> >--------------
> <> = carets
>
isn't ^ a caret?
Michael Mutschler
Helmut Leitner (lei...@hls.via.at) wrote:
: mgSimplify Author wrote:
: >
: >
: > >James D.A. Christopher wrote in message ...
: > >>() = parentheses
: > >>[] = brackets
: > >>{} = braces?
: > >>and then, what are these jobey-doo's: < > ?
: > >>--------------
: > > <> = carets
: >
: > < and > are not carets, ^ is a caret.
: >
: > Every character you could ever think of, and thousands others, are
: > identified at www.unicode.org .
: Right. Unicode:
:
: [] ... square brackets (left, right)
: {} ... curly brackets (left, right)
: <> ... angle brackets (left pointing, right pointing)
OK, I think I finally know how to make the right documentation. Thanks to all fo you.
bye Michael