Re: Absolute Beginners

[Pierre Abbat]

On Monday 25 December 2006 10:36, Geoff Horton wrote:
> It would be better to call them "brackets" or "braces" consistently,
> rather than switching.

The curly ones {} are braces. The square ones [] are brackets. Greater-than 
and less-than signs, when used to enclose something <c e g>, are called 
brokets. It might be good to explain somewhere the difference between single 
brokets and double brokets, which has confused me.

phma