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From: latham@bsdpkh.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: Re: compound statements ( side note )
Message-ID: <221@bsdpkh.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 16-Jul-86 03:19:26 EDT
Article-I.D.: bsdpkh.221
Posted: Wed Jul 16 03:19:26 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 17-Jul-86 06:02:43 EDT
References: <5281@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> <8900039@uiucdcsb>
Reply-To: latham@bsdpkh.UUCP (Ken Latham)
Organization: AT&T-IS (SDSS), Orlando Fl.
Lines: 37
Keywords: BRACES, BRACKETS
Summary: Petty concern

In article <8900039@uiucdcsb> wsmith@uiucdcsb.UUCP writes:
>
>Another argument for forcing the brackets on a function:
                                  ^^^^^^^^
>(derived from experience in programming in pascal........etc.
>

Bill (Smith) if you see this,

I don't mean to pick on you, you just happened to be convenient and guilty.

	 ( didn't I hear that from a policeman once :-) )

Believe me there are Soooo many people that do it !!!!

	these things --->  { }  are called BRACES not brackets!

	these things --->  [ ]  are brackets!

Look up 'braces' in the dictionary, they were first used in music
to denote the grouping of staffs on sheets of music.

I appologize if this in any way offends anyone, but I don't know
how many times I have called them braces only to be "told" they
are :

	"Curly brackets"
	"Brackets, only a different kind."
	"NO, they're, Brackets, you don't know what you're talking about."

I know this is PETTY, but I just had to get it off my chest!!!
	( it feels soooooo goooood !  :-)


			Ken Latham, AT&T-IS (via AGS Inc.), Orlando , FL

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