Bruno Marchal wrote:
> ...
> Due to Dirac, in Quantum Mechanics, I tend to believe that brackets 
> are "<" and ">". parentheses are "(" and ")". I call "{" and "}" 
> accolades, but perhaps they are called bracket. The terms are not 
> important as far as we understand each other. How would you call "[" 
> and "]" ?

I've never seen "{" and "}" denoted "accolades" but I like it; they are 
more commonly called "braces".   I don't know a specific term for "[" 
and "]", I generally refer to them as "square brackets".

Brent


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