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Subject: Re: compound statements ( side note
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Date: Fri, 18-Jul-86 17:16:00 EDT
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... > Ken Latham is being pedantic about braces and brackets.

Welll.... {} are braces. [] are brackets, () are parens. I forget the
proper name for < > or << >>.

Buttt... These symbols all perform a similar function - they are all matchfix
operators, if you will. I find the term `matchfix' obnoxious, so I prefer to
use `brackets' as a generic term. In which case adjectives are useful to
distinguish {} curly brackets from [] square brackets and () round brackets
and < > angle brackets and << >> double angle brackets and BEGIN END verbose
brackets and ... 

Andy "Krazy" Glew. Gould CSD-Urbana.    USEnet:  ihnp4!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!aglew
1101 E. University, Urbana, IL 61801    ARPAnet: aglew@gswd-vms