On 01/09/2014 03:53, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Mark Lawrence wrote:
return (pigword)
These ^ ^
Those are parenthesis :P
But not having to use them is a time saver.
Thanks
No they are round brackets, as opposed to square or curly.
True, they are round brackets, but the word "parentheses" is actually older.
According to the Oxford dictionary, the word "parentheses" dates from the
middle of the 16th century, although the use of it to refer specifically to
the ( and ) symbols is only from the early 20th century. "Bracket" is about
a hundred years later, the middle of the 17th century, and didn't start to
be used for the ( ) symbols themselves until the middle of the 18th.
For all I care they could have been around for the entire time that the
Jurassic Coast has existed.
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