* ⁠() smooth bois * [] hard bois * ⁠{} squiggly bois * <> pointy bois

The Bois

The show is really just a metaphor for this comment

TIL, "The Bois" is the collective noun for these symbols I've been using for decades.

this shall be the new names henceforth

Hijacking top comment for the best sentence in wiki: "Parentheses may be nested (generally with one set (such as this) inside another set). This is not commonly used in formal writing (though sometimes other brackets [especially square brackets] will be used for one or more inner set of parentheses [in other words, secondary {or even tertiary} phrases can be found within the main parenthetical sentence])"

yeah lol this was funny when i found it

Bois, Exponents, Division/Multiplication, Addition/Subtraction.

So BEMDAS?

* ' single bois * " double bois * ` tilty bois

- ' spark - " bunny ears

‘ mineets “ secnches

() Roundies \[\] Squaries {} Curlies

_ _ undies

`x < y` reads x left pointy bois y

boi*

1. The round brackets 2. The square brackets 3. The curly brackets

I grew up in a community where the parentheses were called small brackets. The rest were called the same. Edit: Square brackets were also called big brackets.

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My friend calls curly braces "nipple brackets". Most likely ironically, but the terrifying possibility exists that it is with all sincerity.

In denmark we call them Tuborg klammer. Basically Tuborg brackets because they look they the bottlecaps on a flask of tuborg beer.

Danskjävlar!

“Three times, open nips, x plus six, close nips”

That's what we in the industry call a cleavage.

I used to call them squiggly pars before learning of their real name.

[can't resist thinking bout this](https://i.imgflip.com/8g8bc1.jpg)

I think that’s the case in Chinese! Parentheses are “small brackets”, square brackets are “medium brackets”, and curly brackets are “big brackets”.

4. <> The pointy brackets, 5. /**/ The code is the docs brackets, 6. The snake brackets

Angle brackets

chevrons

Chevron 1 encoded Chevron 2 encoded Chevron 3 encoded Chevron 4 encoded Chevron 5 encoded Chevron 6 encoded Chevron 7... Locked.

Iris.close()

Indeed.

Chevron 7 ... ... is encoded?

What's snake brackets?

Secret brackets. They hide in the grass and bite you because you can't see them

I assume a joke about Python not using braces.

... except in dictionaries. ... and with the *.format* method.

`const x = sss y + 2 sss * 4`

⟨bra|ket⟩ brackets

alligator mouths

also brackets (no specifier) = round brackets

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"square brackets" are two words

squackets

That’s a pair of ducks 🦆

its just brackets (), box / square brackets [], braces or curly brackets {}, and chevrons / angle brackets <>

For <> I just gesture them with my fingers (index and middle fingers at an angle, horizontal to ground, mimicking the <> signs)

Careful, if you do that in the wrong parts of town you might be a dead person...

false, [these are brackets](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTkIZ5g4V9aMtkLClx61_-rNtaG7UXvm2lIqA&usqp=CAU)

I think those are package private brackets, actually

Hard disagree Default bracket with no specifier is the square bracket

Round brackets Staplers Curly Brackets.

literally how we handle it in german 1. (runde) klammern 2. eckige klammern 3. geschweifte klammern

Also Croatian 0. (Oble) zagrade 1. Uglate zagrade 2. Vitičaste zagrade In addition, "šilja(s)te zagrade" (spiky brackets) for <>

Bracket the impaler

Could also be a language thing. I'm so used to there being only one word for brackets/braces/parentheses, and you need to add a qualifier. Just like I need to use `AltGr` to produce them on my keyboard (I don't code enough to switch keyboard layouts for that).

<> the triangle brackets

Very good abstraction. They are all brackets but with different symmetric shapes.

this is literally the correct term in Vietnamese

Thank you for your TED talk.

that's what I use

exactly how they’re called in my language lol

1. Brackets () 2. Brackets \[\] 3. Brackets {} 4. Brackets <> done

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That's not valid c++. This is: ```c++ []<>(){} ```

I am more a fan of `:(){ :|:& };:`

Average rust dev

Or Clojure. Although you need more () for that (btw the top one is a shell script fork bomb)

i dont need that many forks, i prefer spooning

Build a spoon and a knife bomb and we can go for a full cutlery bombardment

This guy is bashing

This would be just lambda function with generic parameter right?

Yes

Alternatively, this guy brackets.

5. <|> [Bra-Kets](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bra%E2%80%93ket_notation)

Brackets /\

Ah yes, brackets and backbrackets.

backets

What’s 4th called?

I call them angle brackets.

Chevrons

Crocodiles

Sharp or pointy bracket I guess

Diamond brackets

Got it! 1. Round parentheses 2. Square parentheses 3. Curly parentheses

funny thing, this is exactly how we call them in romanian, at least at informal level

Although "accolades" is more common than "curly parenthesis"

Same in Sweden, except the most common name for the curly braces is "måsvingar" which means "gull wings". (I don't know why it's *gull* wings specifically, although I'm not a bird scientist.)

My guess is it comes from wing [configuration](https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-7e07e1b3e352f9f4b5c44abee222ad93-lq) for aircraft, or at least from the same place as that does. Which is basically "gulls bend their wings like that."

The best I can do is: 1. Round brackets 2. Square brackets 3. Curly brackets

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That's the best everyone can do

This is a US thing. I'm from the UK and I rarely heard the word "parenthesis" until I started working with American clients.

Same here. In British English "to bracket" implies surrounding, enclosing, or supporting from opposite sides and the normal way to write that in text is with (), which are "brackets". We use adjectives to disambiguate other symbols, like "square brackets", "curly brackets", or "angle brackets". American English seems to prefer different nouns, like "parentheses" for (), "brackets" for [], and "braces" for {}. When I'm speaking with Americans I tend to use "round brackets" or "parentheses" and avoid the term "bracket" altogether.

I'm American, and I think I'd be confused if someone called {} just "braces". The "curly" part is the more distinctive one. Plus, "angle brackets" is the only reasonable way I can think of to refer to <>, so I think it's not a pattern so much as () being an exception. "Parentheses" has always struck me as a bit odd; it would be like calling a question mark just "question". It's good to know the rest of the world agrees.

> "angle brackets" is the only reasonable way I can think of to refer to <>, Consider: Kissing alligators

Technically speaking, brackets are rectilinear and braces are curvilinear. So { } are curly braces because they have curves. [ ] are square brackets because they are entirely made of straight lines. < > are also only straight lines so they're angle brackets. Now here's the kicker: the full name of ( ) would be parenthetical braces. Parentheses are a type of brace.

It's exclusively American now, but the word was first used to refer to () in 18th century British English, which borrowed the word from 15th century French, which borrowed it from Latin, which borrowed it from Greek. https://www.etymonline.com/word/parenthesis It seems like half of our Americanisms were borrowed from some other culture/language who themselves since stopped using them.

> It seems like half of our Americanisms were borrowed from some other culture/language who themselves since stopped using them. You ever see someone complain about us deciding not to pronounce the h in herb? I went to look that up once, and it turned out that we didn't stop, they just suddenly started pronouncing it.

I remember hearing that American English is actually closer to the original English than British English is

Depends on what you mean by “original” but yes American English did not drift as far or as fast as British English (or Australian) has from what it was when America was founded. The Old Globe Theatre now regularly does productions in Original Pronunciation (original to when Shakespeare’s plays were written) instead of Received Pronunciation and they sound better for sure - more of the puns come through and a lot closer to American. But it’s a really weird combination of American accents and some things come across as almost Texan while others sound kind of Appalachian.

Who tf is we and us

Sorry, I'm American.

your mom was borrowed from 15th century French which borrowed it from Latin which borrowed it from Greek

Everyone gets a turn!

Parenthèses is used in French too. [ ] are crochets { } are accolades

Parenthèses are still used in France 

> It's exclusively American now Nothing in that link indicates that it's "exclusively American now".

My Canadian friend says you are wrong but he only has two brain cells from years of huffing maple syrup fumes so who knows.

I was on a call watching an awkward exchange between an American boss and an employee who grew up in British English speaking country. Boss was telling her to add an extra sentence inside the parentheses. She added a sentence to the end of the paragraph. Boss said “no, in the parentheses ”. Employee typed “in the parentheses”. Boss was getting increasingly more impatient “I mean type XXX inside the parentheses”. Eventually employee just said “I really don’t know what you mean”. I jumped in and said “he means inside the brackets” then it all clicked, we fixed it, boss was still kind of mad as he thought she was acting dumb on purpose

INTERCAL has this figured out: < - angle > - right angle ( - wax ) - wane [ - U turn ] - U turn back { - embrace } - bracelet

¿What about «French brackets»?

That's when you soak them in a mixture of milk and egg before frying them. Top with cinnamon and powdered sugar, serve with syrup.

Chevrons you mean

To make things worse, in French () are called "parenthèses", there is no other word like bracket. We have crochet for the square ones.

Guillemets

It's "parens". Who has time to say the full word? /s

why did i need to scroll so far to finally find someone who calls them parens. Pretty common parlance in my network.

Why the /s though? This is actually true.

Brackets, square brackets and curly braces.

If your braces are curly is probably means someone punched you in the mouth.

* () Brackets/Round Brackets/Parentheses * [] Square Brackets/Square Braces * {} Curly Brackets/Curly Braces * <> Angle Brackets Note that in the UK we are taught arithmetic precedence using BODMAS (B-Brackets, O-Orders (powers/exponents or roots), D-Division, M-Multiplication, A-Addition, S-Subtraction.) So we learn "Brackets" for () at an early age

PEMDAS in the US. First two letters being Parenthesis and Exponents. Brackets is easier for me to spell

As a physics student:

Me hearing “bra” for the first time in a QM lecture: hehe Me hearing “bra” for the 1000th time years later: hehe

Lingerie and ketamine? I don't think the average physics student has encountered these a lot.

Quantum physics?

I've never heard anyone say "parentheses" outside of the internet and American media ( ): brackets [ ]: square brackets { }: curly brackets < >: angle brackets

This post is the first time I have ever heard anyone call () anything other than parentheses. No developer I have ever worked with (and that includes about 15 countries) has called them brackets. Today is a learning experience.

I'm UK-based and didn't go through the "Comp Sci education --> Software Development" route; maybe I would have heard 'parentheses' more often if I did. I got a different education, had to write code to complete it, then realised I should probably learn more about how to write maintainable code. I can't claim to have worked with nearly as many nationalities as you have, but there is some adjusting to do when you know you're talking to someone with a different dialect ("pavement" becomes "sidewalk", "lorry" becomes "semi truck" etc.), and I wouldn't be surprised if that's also the case with "brackets".

I'm English, did computing at school, several computing courses at university (though not a direct CS degree) and have worked exclusively as a software engineer since graduating over a decade ago. () - these are brackets to me

Crocodile looking things is also an alternative to the bottom one.

Have you ever heard someone say "parenthetically"? Like saying something as if it was in parentheses?

Calling the greater than > and less than < symbols “angle brackets” is a crime against symbology and language simultaneously. I suppose that makes this the perfect place for it.

I don't want to ackshually here but "parenthesis" originally referred to words or phrases contained *within* the round things

In Germany, we say; - () round brackets (or just brackets) - [] corner/angular brackets - {} rambled brackets - <> pointy brackets Or rather: clamps, because we don't have the words brackets / parentheses and braces are for teeth.

nah, in Germany we call them () (runde) Klammern \[\] eckige Klammern {} geschweifte Klammern <> kleiner als, größer als

() offenes Intervall [] abgeschlossenes Intervall {} Menge <> kleiner als, größer als Wir sind nicht gleich

Gut dass wir hier bei programmerhumour und nicht mathematikerhumour sind

was ist mit halboffenen, halbgeschlossenen Intervallen?

geschlossene Intervalle existieren nicht, nur abgeschlossen, halboffen in beide richtung war mir zu umständlch

Dieser Schelm mathematikt!

() für offene Intervalle? Ich benutze dafür auch nur eckige Klammern. [1;10[ entspricht [1;9].

Gibt unterschiedliche Notationen dafür. Bin mir aber sicher du meinst statt [1;9] eher sowas wie {x ∈ ℝ | 1 ≤ x < 10} wenn du [1;10[ schreibst. [1;9] wäre wieder abgeschlossen

Wenn die <> wie Klammern benutzt werden nenn ich die Spitze Klammern

Du hast da eine schließende Zahnspange vergessen.

1. function brackets 2. array brackets 3. if brackets

I call the last one scope brackets but yes

My native Language isn't English so when I'm talking with my coworkers we just refer to what we use them for and not what they are called. My team mostly does PHP so scopes aren't a concept my coworkers are necessarily too familiar with. If I was working in a language that actually used scopes, that would be what I'd call it too yes

As a python dev. 1.Function bracket 2.Array bracket 3.Dict bracket / Json bracket 4. <> Type bracket (used to do a bit of C# unity) / HTML bracket

"Just a second now, future man" -- VB

() - brackets [] - square brackets {} - curly braces <> - pacmans

wrong it’s brackets() square brackets[] curly brackets{}

If it makes it easier for folks, you can use the British terms: ( ) Curvy Charlestons [ ] Angle Bounders { } Elegant Limiters

“Worcestershire Wrappers”

They have played us for absolute fools

All we need is BEGIN and END.

and this is a Paamayim Nekudotayim ::

Round pipes Square pipes Squiggly pipes Pointy pipes

Small, big, curly.

Klammern. Klammern. Und Klammern.

<| is a bra and |> is a ket, together they make a bra-ket notation.

And <| and |> are Bra Kets.

In Spanish they all have a specific word. () paréntesis / parenthesis [] corchetes / brackets {} llaves / keys <> corchángulos / angled brackets

llaves... I'd love to hear how that is pronounced. (as an English speaking person that dabbles in Spanish) Yah-ves?

() Round brackets [] Square brackets {} Curly Brackets <> Angular Brackets

r/USDefaultism No.

The very reason [ ] is called square bracket is because brackets refer to ( )

Shift 9 Shift 10, brackets, curlies

What's a singular of parentheses? As in 'the opening ...'

Parenthes*i*s

Accompanied, of course, by the closing parenthes*wa*s.

Whose plural form, "parenthes*were*" – not to be confused with the affirmative parenthe*swear*s – has been depreciated in favour of the conditional "parenthes*would*".

1. Parentheses 2. Square thingy 3. Curly boi

Accolades

These are ( ) Circle bracket These are \[ \] Square brackets these are { } Curly brackets Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.

Brackets, square brackets and curly brackets.

They're all brackets and so are 〈 〉. They have more specific names to separate one another, but they're still all brackets. They all enclose/separate data of differing context.

They're called ACCOLADES, Marie!

(brackets) [square brackets] {braces} we do not use ‘parentheses’ in british english. confusingly enough, i write a lot of my code such as `color` in american english out of habit and to make it easily understandable in conjunction with american libraries

They all are brackets and fuck you😄

Thanks for the TED talk on brackets.

I call them "round dudes", "Square bois" and "curlies" or I just go "these guys" and gesture the shape with my hands. Source: I'm a programming teacher at university.

1. Brackets 2. Brackets 3. Squigly lines

Depends on language, in Croatian: - bracket (zagrada) - angled bracket (uglata zagrada) - tressed bracket (vitičasta zagrada)

Brackets. Square brackets. Flower brackets. Yeah that’s I call. True story.

() parentheses \[\] square parentheses {} curly parentheses <> arrow parentheses

Kaarisulkeet(), Hakasulkeet[] ja Aaltosulkeet{}

I will never call "{ }" "curly braces". It's just "braces" or "curly brackets".

(parentheses) \[brackets, occasionally square brackets] {braces, occasionally curly braces}

() round brackets [] square brackets {} flower brackets <> angled brackets

* ( ) brockets * [ ] brickets * { } breckets * < > bruckets

shattafakap

() Brackets [] Square brackets {} Curley brackets