MG> () <- Parenthesis MG> {} <- Braces MG> [] <- Brackets MG> Sorry to be pedantic, but using the wrong terminology confuses me and MG> I'm sure others as well.
This is true for Haskell, but Daniel is correct if he is calling () "Brackets" because they are, in British English, right? (Just like '.' is a 'period' in US, but it is a 'full stop' in UK.). Of course, English /= Haskell so in Haskell I guess they are called Parenthesized Expressions (in the Haskell report http://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/exps.html). To be extra pedantic, I would call {} Curly Braces (or Curly Brackets, or squiggly brackets, or squiggles, or ... just use layout and whitespace!) and I would call [] Square Brackets. Then no one gets confused. Cheerio, Jared P.S. IANAA = I am an American, so I could very well be wrong about British English! > On 12/21/05, Daniel Carrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Daniel Carrera wrote: > > > Hey, > > > > > > The sqrt function is not doing what I want. This is what I want: > > > > > > round sqrt(2) > > > > Sigh... never fails. Spend an hour trying to solve a problem, and a > > minute after you write to the list you find the solution. I need > > brackets around sqrt. I'm surprised though. I don't understand why it > > dosn't work without brackets. > > > > Daniel. > > -- > > /\/`) http://oooauthors.org > > /\/_/ http://opendocumentfellowship.org > > /\/_/ > > \/_/ I am not over-weight, I am under-tall. > > / > > _______________________________________________ > > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > > > > > -- > "50% of marriages today end in divorce, the other 50% end in death. > Which would you rather have?" > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.updike.org/~jared/ reverse ")-:" _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe