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For what it's worth, I've always known them as: ( parentheses (parens), alt. round bracket { brace, alt. curly bracket [ bracket, alt. square bracket The bi
by Cogito 7y ago
For what it's worth, I've always known them as:
( parentheses (parens), alt. round bracket
{ brace, alt. curly bracket
[ bracket, alt. square bracket
The biggest confusion is between bracket and parentheses, in that people will use bracket to mean both. If I think there might be confusion I use the alternatives as they seem to remove all ambiguity.
- shakna 7y agoYeah, unfortunately "parenthesis" is a hard word for most of the Speech-To-Text engines I tried, at least with my accent. ("parent thesis") And it is somewhat of a long word to be using all the time.
- Cogito 7y agoAnd for that reason, if I was using speech-to-code, I would probably use the alternative forms of 'round bracket', 'square bracket', and 'curly bracket' when I need to specify the type.