Brackets and Parentheses

[vinicity]

I am thinking he might have meant “brackets”?

[pianofire]

@vinicity Ah I didn't think of that. I have not heard that context before for []

[petermeisenstein]

@faz808 He meant brackets because in german clamps and brackets have the same meaning "Klammern"

[faz808]

Klammer is brackets and Klemmen is Clamp. Thanks Google translate ..

[petermeisenstein]

@faz808 So Klammern is also brackets and clamp is also brackets I found different translations on google translate

[Mechanical]

@faz808 im sorry it could be a mistake by me.

With clamps I mean these things () []

[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]

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