Apparently, though unproven, at 10:03 on Friday 20 August 2010, Neil Bothwick
did opine thusly:
> On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:38:10 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > No, it isn't. You may be being confused by the unnecessary inclusion of
> > brackets (parentheses if you're American);
>
> If you're British too:
>
> Defined usage:
> () parentheses
> [] brackets
> {} braces
>
> General usage:
> () brackets
> [] square brackets
> {} curly brackets
>
> I'll let you decide which is the more intuitive usage.
The former, obviously.
Stuff has names, people should learn the names.
"Arrogant jerk on second floor with a beard and no head hair" is definitely
more intuitive to my new staff, but for anyone here longer than a week it is
far simpler to just use the name of the thing instead of some description, and
refer to me as "Alan"
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
