This could be an interesting error
Ned Batchelder
ned at nedbatchelder.com
Sun Aug 31 22:12:10 EDT 2014
On 8/31/14 8:56 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> On 01/09/2014 01:08, Seymore4Head wrote:
>> On Mon, 01 Sep 2014 00:21:14 +0100, Mark Lawrence
>> <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> On 31/08/2014 23:42, Seymore4Head wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 22:38:12 +0100, Mark Lawrence
>>>> Unnecessary brackets?
>>>> I tried deleting the brackets and that doesn't seem to work. I tried
>>>> changing the brackets to parenthesizes and that didn't work. Although
>>>> I would prefer brackets to parenthesizes as you don't need shift to
>>>> type them.
>>>>
>>>>>> pigword = stem + prefix + "ay"
>>>>>> print ("Stem ",stem)
>>>>>> print ("Prefix",prefix)
>>>>>> print (pigword)
>>>>>> break
>>>>>> return (pigword)
>>>
>>> These ^ ^
>>
>> Those are parenthesis :P
>> But not having to use them is a time saver.
>> Thanks
>>
>
> No they are round brackets, as opposed to square or curly.
>
Even if they are also called round brackets, surely we can agree that
parentheses are an accurate term for ( and ).
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