Brackets and Parentheses

[petermeisenstein]

@Mechanical These are called brackets in english

[Martin]

@petermeisenstein said in Putting an array in a struct.:

@Mechanical These are called brackets in english

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These are brackets ()

These are square brackets []

And just for completeness, these are braces {}

[PickleCatStars]

You forgot pointy brackets <>

[petermeisenstein]

@toxibunny wait this is higher lower symbol are they also called brackets

[pianofire]

@petermeisenstein Anything that can be used to enclose something can be called a bracket "<" and ">" are often used to enclose tags as in HTML/XML. They specifically are also known as chevrons or angle brackets

[petermeisenstein]

@pianofire wow that is very suprising for me so even | could call a bracket wow thats crazy

[Retrocade_media]

@Martin said in Putting an array in a struct.:

These are brackets ()

Wait hold on those are called parenthesis! I don't think I've ever heard then referred to as brackets in America.

[waldron]

@Retrocade_media those greeks, also known as curved brackets
etymology my dear watson

[petermeisenstein]

I thought "" would be paranthesis

In germany "" they are called Anführungszeichen

Or you can say Gänsefüschen what would be translated Duckfoots

[Martin]

OK, this is degenerating into an English lesson rapidly. Please try to keep on-topic people!

[Retrocade_media]

@petermeisenstein We'll get back on topic after this I swear, but "" are called Quotation marks

[PB____]

» According to Wikipedia, the Germans use quotes like this, so I understand the confusion :p «

[PickleCatStars]

They are fast forward and rewind symbols.

And this “ is an inverted double apostrophe.

[Retrocade_media]

With every off topic reply Martin dies a little bit more on the inside. (Sorry Martin!)

[pianofire]

There you go fixed that

[petermeisenstein]

@pianofire So now we can talk about brackets and parentheses very nice

[PickleCatStars]

Speaking of cultural differences, I was asked to help with some junior school maths homework here once and I was like ‘okay, easy’ and then the questions were all like ’1,5 • 1,5 = ?’ And I was like ’what the heck even is this???’. Sad day.

[Martin]

@Retrocade_media said in Brackets and Parentheses:

With every off topic reply Martin dies a little bit more on the inside. (Sorry Martin!)

Thats OK - I have a delete / purge button :D