At 12:59 PM -0400 10/16/09, Bob McConnell wrote:
From: tedd
At 4:51 PM +0100 10/16/09, Ashley Sheridan wrote:
>>Open-bracket,
No, that's not an open bracket -- that's an open parenthesis or
"paren" for short.
An open bracket is [
An open curly brace is {
That depends on which edition of English you use. Take a look at the
definition of bracket in Wikipedia. What you call a parenthesis is
called a bracket in England and parts of Canada, as well as elsewhere.
They specify square bracket for the second one. I stumbled on this one
in another mailing list a few years ago.
Bob McConnell
I just follow the books published on the subject.
Cheers,
tedd
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