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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 12 Jan 1998.

                            
    
    
Re: Naes of ASCII Symbols
    
                        


                                            

                

            

        


    

        

            

                

                    
Re: Naes of ASCII Symbols

                    

                        From Truly Donovan <tru...@ibm.net>
                        · alt.ascii-art
                        · 12 Jan 1998 00:00                                                    · View full thread
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On Sun, 11 Jan 1998 21:40:47 -0600, jdo...@ix.netcom.com (John
Doherty) wrote:


>FWIW, I use:
>
>  () left and right parentheses
>  [] left and right brackets
>  {} left and right braces
>  <> less than and greater than

I use "less than" and "greater than" when they occur in a context
where "less than" and "greater than" are meaningful.  However, most of
time that *I* have to refer to them, they are much more meaningfully
called "angle brackets."

--
Truly Donovan
reply to truly at lunemere dot com



                    

                

            

        


        

            

                

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From: tru...@ibm.net (Truly Donovan)
Subject: Re: Naes of ASCII Symbols
Date: 1998/01/12
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