Re: Why not using [] instead of () for array?

[Mats Karlssohn <mats@mida.se>]

Robert Dewar wrote:
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> Indeed, it was always a pain to write Pascal in Sweden,
> where [] are overridden for the extra letters in the
> Swedish alphabet.

Just for the sake of satisfying the curious, when using swedish 7-bit
characters;
the character '{' is a lover-case 'a' with umlaut (two dots over it)
the character '}' is a lover-case 'a' with a small ring over it
the character '|' is a lover-case 'o' with umlaut
the character '[' is an upper-case 'A' with umlaut
the character ']' is an upper-case 'A' with a small ring over it
and the character '\' is an uppercase 'O' with umlaut

I don't know the linguistic term for the little ring.

Do I get todays point for worthless knowledge ? ;-)

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