Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 14:20:18 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net> Cc: Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man9 style.9 Message-ID: <20000717142018.D26231@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20000716225410.A15022@netmonger.net> References: <200007162046.NAA80035@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000717113109.D52835@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20000716225410.A15022@netmonger.net>
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On Sunday, 16 July 2000 at 22:54:10 -0400, Christopher Masto wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 11:31:09AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:
>> For me, brackets are '(' and ')'. '[' and ']' are square brackets,
>> and '<' and '>' are angle brackets. '{' and '}' are braces. I'm sure
>> I'm not alone, and there are probably other naming conventions for
>> these symbols. It would make sense to spell out what the man page
>> means.
>
> A possibly unambigous set of terms?:
>
> '(' and ')': parenthesis
> '[' and ']': square brackets
> '<' and '>': angle brackets
> '{' and '}': curly braces
>
> When someone says "put brackets around that", I'm also unsure what
> they meant, because I've seen the word used for all four sets of
> characters. Same thing with "braces". There are probably some
> hideously officious ISO names for these.
I don't really care which we end up with, as long as we define them
somewhere to avoid confusion. But it sounds good, modulo the typo
that Chris picked up. I think I'd leave out "curly", too: we don't
have any other type of brace.
Greg
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