Re: Brackets

Subject: Re: Brackets
From: "Wing, Michael J" <mjwing -at- INGR -dot- COM>
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 08:27:15 -0500

I never knew what to call { curly brackets}. I always called them
wacky brackets.

Mike Wing


> Peter Ekstedt (ekstedtp -at- anz -dot- com) asked:
> What are the correct names for the following?
>
> 1. [square brackets]
> 2. {curly brackets}
> 3. (common or garden variety brackets)
>
> Everyone in my office, including myself, thinks that (common or garden
> variety brackets) are called parentheses. What about the others?
> ************
>
> Peter, everyone in your office is correct about the parentheses.
>
> {braces, or curly braces}
> [brackets]
> (parentheses)
>
> ~~Diane
>
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