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From: sambo@ukma.UUCP (Father of micro-ln)
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: Re: Re: compound statements ( side note )
Message-ID: <4138@ukma.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 2-Aug-86 03:15:50 EDT
Article-I.D.: ukma.4138
Posted: Sat Aug  2 03:15:50 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 2-Aug-86 23:14:04 EDT
References: <873@ucbcad.BERKELEY.EDU> <307@hdsvx1.UUCP> <659@glasgow.glasgow.UUCP>
Reply-To: sambo@ukma.UUCP (Father of micro-ln)
Organization: U of KY Mathematical Sciences
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In article <659@glasgow.glasgow.UUCP> taylor@glasgow.UUCP (Jem Taylor) writes:
>I'm a pedant too ! I believe '<' and '>' to be 'carets', rather than 'brackets'.
>If anyone really cares, they could look up that word in a dictionary; I haven't.

I think this discussion has probably gone too far.  Not that I really care,
but according to a "The Merriam-Webster Dictionary" published by Pocket Books
a previous office dweller left lying around, a caret is "a mark ^ used to
indicate the place where something is to be inserted," and a bracket, among
other things, is "one of a pair of punctuation marks [ ] used esp. to enclose
interpolated matter."  Now this is a 1974 edition, so someone might want to
check a more recent edition to see if the meanings have changed. :-)
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Samuel A. Figueroa, Dept. of CS, Univ. of KY, Lexington, KY  40506-0027
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	"Micro-ln is great, if only people would start using it."