[GLLUG] really random question...

Matt Graham danceswithcrows at usa.net
Tue May 27 21:45:21 EDT 2003


On Tuesday 27 May 2003 18:39, after a long battle with technology, Ben 
Pfaff wrote:
> Mark Tarquini <mark at iametarq.com> writes:
> > What are these called:
> > { }
> I've always seen them call curly braces, or occasionally French
> braces.

http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/A/ASCII.html says "brace" is the most 
common, the ISO standard name is "opening , closing brace", and the 
INTERCAL names are "embrace" and "bracelet".

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