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> {} == parentesi graffe (claws) I initially read that as "parentesi giraffe" which could have been plausible... ,-{ __ }-, in French, they are (plural form)
by pygy_ 17y ago
> {} == parentesi graffe (claws)
I initially read that as "parentesi giraffe" which could have been plausible...
,-{ __ }-,
in French, they are (plural form):
( parenthèses )
[ crochets ] => "hooks"
{ accolades } => "hugs"
Some computer scientists split the word in two to distinguish the opening one from the closing one (like Physicist do with the bra-ket notation).
( a b c ) is then pronounced "Paren, a, b, c, thèse".
- The_Tester 17y agoYes but in Physics the bra & ket vector notatin (kind of) mis-uses '<' & '>' to denote vectors as in <Ψ|H|Ψ> = E, for example (and if my memory servers right…)
- ramchip 17y agoI've never heard the "split parenthesis" - perhaps Quebec is different. I have a Lisp teacher in Japan who has an interesting way of reading code. He says 'kakko' for '(', which is the usual Japanese word for a parenthesis. For the closing one, he says the word in reverse: 'kokka'. So "(def a (fn))" would be read "kakko def a kakko fn kokka kokka". It's quite effective.