nixCraft 🐧Feb 18, 2024

PSA: Stop calling these: () brackets!

These () are parentheses

These [] are brackets

These {} are curly braces

Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.

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Feb 18, 2024 at 3:48amWeb
Show threadnightyFeb 18, 2024
@gabe @nixCraft brackets ofc
Show threadPhDog 🇮🇪Feb 18, 2024

@gabe @nixCraft

Fighting alligators.

Show threadDeber1an Feb 18, 2024
@nixCraft @gabe @dogfox correct :3
Show thread2xfoFeb 18, 2024
@gabe @nixCraft
i call em angle brackets
Show threadwaldiFeb 18, 2024
@gabe @nixCraft And «» vs „” vs “”
Show threadPetri SalmelaFeb 18, 2024
@waldi @gabe @nixCraft vs ""
Show threadSkyLukeFeb 18, 2024
@gabe @nixCraft I call those greater than and lesser than.
Show threadSteve DowneyFeb 18, 2024

@gabe @nixCraft
That's a bra and a ket.

Letting physicists name things has been a disaster. Thank Dirac for that one.