Jonathan Andrew Sheen wrote in
<mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>>>Angle brackets. These are the arrow ones: {}
>>I always thought these {} were called "curly brackets". Well... :-)
> When I went to school, they were "braces."
The Jargon File has this to say about their names:
< > Common: <less/greater than>; bra/ket; l/r angle;
l/r angle bracket; l/r broket. Rare: from/{into, towards}; read
from/write to; suck/blow; comes-from/gozinta; in/out; crunch/zap (all
from UNIX); tic/tac; [angle/right angle].
{ } Common: o/c brace; l/r brace; l/r squiggly; l/r squiggly
bracket/brace; l/r curly bracket/brace; <opening/closing
brace>. Rare: brace/unbrace; curly/uncurly; leftit/rytit;
l/r squirrelly; [embrace/bracelet]. A balanced pair of these
may be called curlies.
<http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/A/ASCII.html>
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