Re: Re: why the need to match when assigning?

Important nit-pik: You mean parentheses, (or "parens" for short.) "Brackets" refers to []. An important difference when discussing code.

This was something that came as a complete surprise to me when 'Merkans started reviewing early drafts of DMP. In the UK, the word brackets denotes (), [] are 'square brackets', {} are 'curly brackets' (or 'braces') and <> are 'angle brackets'. 'Parentheses' isn't in common use at all.

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Re: Re: Re: why the need to match when assigning? by converter (Priest) on Jun 04, 2001 at 17:33 UTC
I suppose this would explain the use of term bracket variable when referring to $1 and friends?	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: why the need to match when assigning? by swiftone (Curate) on Jun 04, 2001 at 17:08 UTC
Ack! Well that's good to know.	[reply]