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In British English it's much the same: () == "round brackets" or usually just "brackets" [] == "square brackets" {} == "curly brackets" or "braces"
by alextgordon 17y ago
In British English it's much the same:
() == "round brackets" or usually just "brackets"
[] == "square brackets"
{} == "curly brackets" or "braces"
- spectre 17y agoIn New Zealand: () == "round brackets" [] == "square brackets" {} == "curly brackets" <> == "pointy brackets"
- code_devil 17y agoI grew up in India and am familiar with this, used to always wonder if I was wrong and why i often get confused when people say parentheses instead of brackets.(I have been in the US since the last 10 years)
- sh1mmer 17y agoIn England I learned the version further up this thread. Computer Science nomenclature doesn't really follow British vs. American English separations as much as natural language. In fact I don't recall anyone in Britain use those terms to me, either in university or at work.
- bugs 17y agoInteresting, I'm from the US and I do call () parenthesis but the last two are the same from what I've learned and what other people say (usually in math classes).
- mivok 17y agoThat's how I learned it (although I never used 'round brackets' explicitly). This gets really confusing when you begin to talk to Americans and refer to 'brackets', thankfully everybody understands parens, and the others are the same.