Steven D'Aprano <steve+pyt...@pearwood.info> added the comment:
In British, Australian, New Zealander, and Indian English (and sometimes
Canada), at least, "bracket" on its own typically means round brackets () and
is rarely if ever used for square brackets [] or curly brackets {} without the
adjective.
See for example
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/168762/brackets-vs-parenthesis for
a discussion.
Consequently, the phrase "parentheses instead of brackets" reads to us as
"parentheses instead of parentheses" would to Americans. In other words, weird
and requiring a moment (or three) of thought to translate.
I support the suggested change to "parentheses instead of square brackets" --
it should read more naturally to people in the British Commonwealth and (I
hope) shouldn't look too strange to Americans.
My personal preference would be for "round brackets instead of square
brackets", but I guess that will be a battle I have no hope of winning *wink*
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