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| AU | square brackets | parentheses | +----+-----------------+-------------+ :(
by meric 16y ago
| AU | square brackets | parentheses |
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:(
- michaelcampbell 16y agoIs there nothing commonly called just 'brackets' in Oz?
- nailer 16y agoYeah, these are brackets for me (), these are square brackets [].
- meric 16y agoIn high school, my maths teachers all insist ( ) are `parentheses`. The sibling post's author thinks that ( ) are brackets. Clearly there are two different populations here. That's why the need to explicitly specify which "brackets".
- burke 16y ago| CA | [[any of the above]] | [[any of the above]] | +----+----------------------+----------------------+ I don't think I've heard two different people refer to them consistently.