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No reference to {} as mustaches? Three years are a long time.
by ch0wn 16y ago
No reference to {} as mustaches? Three years are a long time.
- danparsonson 16y agoI've always called them 'curly brackets' which, on reflection, is a little like calling a keyboard a 'typey box'. Funny how long you can do something without really questioning what you're doing!
- sp332 16y agoI call them curly brackets {} to distinguish from square brackets [] and angle brackets <>.
- danparsonson 16y agoI'm a self-taught coder with no formal CS training, and as such have found over recent years that I've been lacking (among other things) some of the appropriate vocabulary to talk about programming unambiguously. Consequently, I'm always on the look-out for more formal and concise terms where previously I may have used more simplistic language - in this case, 'braces', 'brackets' and 'parentheses' struck me as being the best way to describe {}, [] and (), compared to curly, square and normal brackets (as I've likewise always called them). <> will have to remain angle brackets though I think.