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Re: question about exit command


From: Greg Wooledge
Subject: Re: question about exit command
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 08:51:14 -0500
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On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 01:43:34PM +0000, Davide Brini wrote:
> From wikipedia:
> 
> "Parentheses (singular, parenthesis) ??? also called simply brackets (UK), or 
> round brackets, curved brackets, oval brackets, or, colloquially, parens..."

Oh joy... another weird British thing I wasn't aware of.  I'm American,
and so I don't always know non-American terminology.  In the US, we use:

  ( )  parentheses
  [ ]  square brackets
  { }  curly braces
  < >  angle brackets

Human languages suck.



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