What do you call the punctuation marks { and } ?
Braces? Curly brackets? Something else?
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I don't know, so I try to avoid calling them anything. I write or type them when possible.
TSomKes
2009-07-10 14:31:19
Why do I like this answer so much... Probably because I have those situations where someone asks why I use those "euh... things, you know... zigzaggy thing... wobbly parentheses", I "curly braces?", "what?", "This?" I type {}. He/she shouts... "yeah, that thing..."
Dykam
2009-07-10 14:34:54
This make more sense to me but for some reason I could never get into the habit of calling them braces, I always used curly brackets.
MitMaro
2009-07-10 14:34:12
@Yohnny: I agree that it's redundant, but I can't stop myself from saying "curly braces" and "square brackets", even though "braces" and "brackets" ought to suffice
rmeador
2009-07-10 14:53:31
..but "curly braces" sounds soo much cooler then just plain old "braces"...
DeadHead
2009-07-11 19:07:57
These are the only kind of braces there are. "Curly Braces" makes no more sense than "irregardless" does.
RBarryYoung
2009-07-12 03:25:26
@Nosredna: The ones that hold up the oldies trousers? And the ones on your intern's teeth
Marc Gravell
2009-09-18 05:57:59
The definitive answer. I hate it when someone calls parentheses "brackets".
Steve Guidi
2009-07-10 14:36:36
@Steve: America doesn't have a monopoly on the English language. Brackets *are* parentheses in British English. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracket#Usage
LukeH
2009-07-10 15:13:54
Agreed with 'braces', with the slight addition of specifying opening brace and closing brace (rather than perhaps left brace and right brace): this is also the canonical answer in the list in the http://codinghorror.com/blog/archives//001133.html (Coding Horror ASCII Pronunciation Rules for Programmers)
mas
2009-07-10 15:21:07
@Luke: Thanks for pointing that out for us Brits. I would have been obliged to do so anyway!
Noldorin
2009-09-17 18:03:35
A:
Most of what I've seen is a combination of either "curly" or "brace". So, it might be called a "curly" or "curly bracket" or "brace" or something like that. Personally, I call them "braces".
David Thornley
2009-07-10 14:34:41
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A:
I call them braces. On many SLR cameras they use this '[]' symbol for the bracketing feature and I've always known '[' and ']' as brackets myself.
Eric M
2009-07-10 14:34:52
+1 - exactly what I was going to say: "Public int main bracket int arg-see comma char star star arg-vee bracket open squiggly". Note also the use of the one true squig^H^H^H^H^Hbrace style ;-}
ConcernedOfTunbridgeWells
2009-07-10 14:44:33
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I name them as follows:
- (brackets)
- {curly brackets} or sometimes {braces} or even {curly braces}
- [square brackets]
US English seems to have:
- (parentheses)
- [brackets]
- {braces}
Roger Lipscombe
2009-07-10 14:37:51
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A:
Nothing, they're not available on Italian keyboards.
And yet Italian C-programmers exist. They use trigraphs.
Rhythmic Fistman
2009-07-10 14:41:24
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A:
I call those braces, and I call [ and ] brackets. I consider the terms curly braces and square brackets redundant, but sometimes the redundancy helps avoid confusion, in part because brace and bracket are similar words, easily confused, and in part because some people use braces or brackets to mean parentheses.
Rob Kennedy
2009-07-10 14:42:58
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A:
In Denmark we often call them "Tuborg parenthesis" refering to the shape of the red and white sunshade used by the Danish beer brand Tuborg. There is more information on Wikipedia in Danish and in English.
Martin Liversage
2009-07-10 14:43:03
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A:
In my books (I am from Canada) these are:
() = Parentheses
[] = Brackets
{} = Braces
Until recently when I was typing on a european keyboard I thought these were standard symbols and everyone called them the same, but now I realize different cultures call them different things, and some keyboards don't even have these on them!
wweicker
2009-07-10 14:43:57
In germany i call them "geschweifte klammer". But not sure whether anyone wants to know?
Johannes Schaub - litb
2009-07-10 15:03:33
{kapcsos zárójel}, [szögletes zárójel], (zárójel) - in Hungarian. Zárójel means: closing mark. Yes, the opening brackets are closing, too. { - kapcsos zárójel nyitva: closing mark opened, } - kapcsos zárójel zárva: closing mark closed. :)
Vili
2009-11-25 07:04:28
A:
No-one's stated < >
Which I call "inequalities" (if used singularly) or "chevrons" (if used as parentheses).
To me {} are curly braces.
StuperUser
2009-07-10 15:02:20
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* round brackets, open brackets, or parentheses: ( )
* square brackets, closed brackets, or box brackets: [ ]
* curly brackets or braces: { }
* angle brackets, diamond brackets, cone brackets, or chevrons: < > or ⟨ ⟩
ref:
ufukgun
2009-07-10 15:04:02
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{} - chaves [] - colchetes () - parênteses
in Portuguese, of course.
Humberto
2009-07-10 15:04:16