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From: aglew@ccvaxa.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.internat
Subject: Brackets
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Date: Tue, 20-May-86 16:06:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 20 16:06:00 1986
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Nf-From: ccvaxa.UUCP!aglew    May 20 15:06:00 1986


While we're on keyboards: I think that a case can be made for putting all
matching brackets on adjacent keys, near to each other. The keyboards that
have
      |---|---|
      | { | } |
      | [ | ] |
      |---|---|

start off right, but putting < and > above , and . breaks the pattern (and,
yes, there are quite a few people who use less-than and greater-than as
brackets).

While we're at it, where should properly formed left and right quotation
marks be put, or, if not on the keyboard, how should they be generated?
(no, back-quote and single quote do not always match).