From: David Starner <dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu>
Subject: Re: Why not using [] instead of () for array?
Date: 25 Feb 2002 05:28:06 GMT
Date: 2002-02-25T05:28:06+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a5ci16$9281@news.cis.okstate.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9ff447f2.0202241719.446bf17b@posting.google.com
On 24 Feb 2002 17:19:01 -0800, Adrian Hoe <byhoe@greenlime.com> wrote:
> I don't know if this has been discussed before. But I think this is a
> good question. What exactly the reason for using () rather than []? I
> strongly believe a strong reason exists which I don't know. Anyone?
[] are not in the ISO 646 safe subset - that is, there are a few systems
(and there used to be more) that either uses EBCDIC (which doesn't
include []) or use a national variant of ASCII that puts accented
characters or the like in those spots.
--
David Starner - starner@okstate.edu
What we've got is a blue-light special on truth. It's the hottest thing
with the youth. -- Information Society, "Peace and Love, Inc."
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Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-25 1:19 Why not using [] instead of () for array? Adrian Hoe
2002-02-25 1:48 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-02-25 3:14 ` Darren New
2002-02-25 10:14 ` Peter Hermann
2002-02-25 3:23 ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-02-25 5:28 ` David Starner [this message]
2002-02-25 14:39 ` Robert Dewar
2002-02-26 7:56 ` Mats Karlssohn
2002-02-27 4:52 ` Robert Dewar
2002-02-27 16:44 ` Darren New
2002-02-27 14:29 ` David Starner
2002-02-27 0:50 ` Adrian Hoe
2002-02-27 17:37 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-02-25 18:46 ` Toshitaka Kumano
2002-02-27 4:54 ` Robert Dewar
2002-02-27 8:48 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2002-02-28 5:29 ` Adrian Hoe
2002-02-28 21:39 ` Florian Weimer
2002-02-27 1:09 ` Adrian Hoe
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2002-02-28 6:37 Christoph Grein
2002-02-28 22:56 ` Jeffrey Carter
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