On 10/21/24 11:59 AM, Alice Ryhl wrote:
On 10/21/24 8:41 PM, John Hubbard wrote:
On 10/21/24 11:37 AM, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
On Mon, Oct 21, 2024 at 8:35 PM John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Is this another case of C and Rust using different words for things??
Wow. OK...
I am not sure what you mean -- by BE I meant British English.
See my other reply as well -- I just changed it anyway because Rust
apparently uses "parentheses".
Right. For spoken languages, that's simply preference, and I would not
try to impose anything on anyone there.
But in this case, at least for C (and, from reading my Rust book(s), I
thought for Rust also), "parentheses" is a technical specification, and
we should prefer to be accurate:
parentheses: ()
brackets: []
Yes?
What word would you use to collectively talk about (), [], {}? In my native language they're all a kind of parenthesis.
Good question. I've never attempted that when discussing programming
language details, because it hasn't come up, because it would be a
programming error in C to use one in place of the other. And it is
rare to refer to both cases in C.
Rust so far seems to have the same distinction, although I am standing
by to be corrected as necessary, there! :)
At a higher level of abstraction, though, perhaps "grouping" is a good
word.
thanks,
--
John Hubbard
