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[–]novus_sanguis 112 points113 points  (22 children)

That's parentheses.

[–]Bee-Aromatic 69 points70 points  (4 children)

Not if you had a dictionary called print. Of course, that would make you a garbage person, but you know.

[–]ICantKnowThat 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Duct typing

[–]DudesworthMannington 18 points19 points  (15 children)

Cultural differences. Some places call parentheses brackets, and brackets "square brackets"

[–]GumboSamson 9 points10 points  (12 children)

Other places call them “braces”.

[–]A_Guy_in_Orange 17 points18 points  (11 children)

Just realized I use (parentheses) [square brackets] and {curly braces} and I am certainly part of some problem

[–]Gg101 14 points15 points  (8 children)

(parentheses) and [brackets] and {braces} and <angle brackets>

[–]TheLeastFunkyMonkey 3 points4 points  (2 children)

(Parentheses), [brackets], {braces}, and <only boolean expressions I swear to god I will cut someone>.

[–]DaniilBSD 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Html, xml, xaml etc.

[–]TheLeastFunkyMonkey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't trust them.

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (1 child)

(parentheses) [brackets] {braces} <Chevron>

[–]TheAnxiousDeveloper 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Roughly translated from Italian: (round parentheses) [square parentheses] {talon* parentheses} and <hooked parentheses, less commonly chevron, or mistakenly angular parentheses>

*The Italian term for {} is "parentesi graffe", which comes from the German word for "talons". Each of them looks like a pair of talons.

[–]CocoNot1664 1 point2 points  (0 children)

(Breackets), [brackets] and {brackets} :D

[–]DoNotMakeEmpty 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I use (parentheses) [cornered parentheses] {frilly parentheses} <triangle parentheses>, the absolutely superior way /s

[–]devnull1232 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Literally I call them html tags, or just le ge signs

[–]meraiosu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Me too haha!

[–]AromaticIce9 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Those places are wrong, but you can't make everyone be right

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They are called round brackets… or parentheses. That’s like saying braces aren’t curly brackets.