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Curly brackets or braces { }
Curly brackets (so-called in British English; North American English prefers braces) are sometimes used in prose to indicate a series of equal choices: “Select your animal {goat, sheep, cow, horse} and follow me”. They are used in specialized ways in poetry and music (to mark repeats or joined lines). The musical terms for this mark joining staves are “accolade” and “brace.” In mathematics they delimit sets. In many programming languages, they enclose groups of statements.
Presumably due to the similarity of the words brace and bracket (although they do not share an etymology), many people casually treat brace as a synonym for bracket. Therefore, when it is necessary to avoid any possibility of confusion, such as in computer programming, it may be best to use the term curly bracket rather than brace. However, general usage in North American English favours the latter form. The term curly braces is redundant since no other type of brace exists. Indian programmers often use the name “flower bracket”.
Curly brackets are often used in internet communities and through instant messaging to indicate hugging.
- wake me up when this response is over....snooze********
- In real life, do you have problems making friends?detritus
- probably. all his friends are just viouces in his head and they still want nothing to do with him********
- I'll ask one now...1 second....I'm getting something....."detri... & 734 are lonely, lost and insecure...love them" ....its gone********
- I'm not the one making an arse out of my self at every given opportunity. Why do you even bother?detritus
- I beg to differ.....you doing a very good job at the moment detris********
- I'ma gonna ignore you from now on, Anthony. Goodbye.detritus
- WHAT THE FUCK HAVE YOU DONE********
- EVERYTHING, AT EVERY GIVEN OPPORTUNITY, IN EVERY MOTHERFUCKING PLACE, 4 NOW & EVA.detritus
- wake me up when this response is over....snooze