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No reference to {} as mustaches? Three years are a long time.
Might as well call it a "WTF mark".
+----+-----------------+-------------+
| | [] | () |
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| US | brackets | parentheses |
| UK | square brackets | brackets |
+----+-----------------+-------------+Around ten years ago I worked as an instructor teaching people programming here in Sweden. My company decided I did such a good job they would send me over to their parent company in the UK to teach some classes there. I knew the material by heart so, no problem, I thought. I quickly discovered, right in front of the class at the white board with marker in hand, with my first " { " written, that being fluent in Engli…
In Swedish and Danish the sign is known as the "snabel a" (literally trunk a), owning to the resemblance between the sign and the trunk of an elephant. In Norwegian the term most commonly used is "krøllalfa" (literally: curled alpha). In Greek the sign is known as "papaki" meaning small duck. In Slovenian, the most common word for it is "afna", colloquially meaning "monkey", much like in Polish. In Hungarian, it is called "kukac" meaning "caterpillar".
He should have also listed "#!" AKA "shebang" / "hashbang"
I work with French programmers, so that opens an entire other can of worms. Colon becomes "two points" and semi-colon becomes "point comma".
I just searched quickly how to explain that the semi-colon is somehow half a colon. I couldn't find anything.
I work with French programmers, so that opens an entire other can of worms. Colon becomes "two points" and semi-colon becomes "point comma".
Another source of confusion is the meaning of the word "brackets": +----+-----------------+-------------+ | | [] | () | +----+-----------------+-------------+ | US | brackets | parentheses | | UK | square brackets | brackets | +----+-----------------+-------------+
| AU | square brackets | parentheses |
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