Brackets and Parentheses

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