Ya didnae ha' te use brackets. Be curly, Jimmeh!
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From: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard on 5 Feb 2010 19:59 > >> >> A couple of other details: Why use {} round your variables? >> > That was something I got in the habit of too and still find myself > doing for no good reason today. I wonder if the OP went to Glasgow > University.... > So curly braces are simply round brackets with a heavy Glaswegian accent?
From: Ed Morton on 6 Feb 2010 10:13 On 2/5/2010 6:59 PM, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: >> >>> >>> A couple of other details: Why use {} round your variables? >>> >> That was something I got in the habit of too and still find myself >> doing for no good reason today. I wonder if the OP went to Glasgow >> University.... >> > So curly braces are simply round brackets with a heavy Glaswegian accent? > Naw, bit ah dinnae ken whaur it wiz fae, a jist yased it. Thinking about it, using curly brackets unnecessarily probably isn't the worst habit I picked up at GU. It may be just one more thing to blame on McEwans Export. Ed.
From: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard on 10 Feb 2010 15:35
> >>>> >>>> A couple of other details: Why use {} round your variables? >>>> >>> That was something I got in the habit of too and still find myself >>> doing for no good reason today. I wonder if the OP went to Glasgow >>> University.... >>> >> So curly braces are simply round brackets with a heavy Glaswegian >> accent? >> > Naw, bit ah dinnae ken whaur it wiz fae, a jist yased it. > > Thinking about it, using curly brackets unnecessarily probably isn't > the worst habit I picked up at GU. It may be just one more thing to > blame on McEwans Export. > Using the C shell would be a sign of an Export drinker. Curly braces, on the other hand, are what results when one deep-fries round brackets in batter. |