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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: flags & flagMask == flagMask can be true for flags != flagMask if flags is a superset of flagMask ?
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2022 10:46:04 -0700
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Mike Terry <news.dead.person.stones@darjeeling.plus.com> writes:
> On 18/08/2022 16:29, Scott Lurndal wrote:
>> Muttley@dastardlyhq.com writes:
>>> On Thu, 18 Aug 2022 09:58:59 +0200
>> 
>>>> As far as I understood that was exactly what they where aiming for.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the precedence heads-up.
>>>
>>> If in doubt just use brackets. They're free.
>> Parentheses work even better.   Unless bracket [] is UK
>> for parentheses ()?
>> 
>
> I would describe both () and [] as types of brackets (round and square
> respectively, with round being assumed if unqualified).
>
> I'm a UK person.  Wikipedia suggests "In most English-speaking
> countries, an unqualified 'bracket' refers to the round bracket; in
> the United States, the square bracket.".  Probably the C++ standards
> specify the correct C++ terms?

In my version of US English, (these) are parentheses (or parens if I'm
in a hurry), [these] are brackets, {these} are braces, and <these> are
angle brackets.  I never refer to (these) as brackets.

But I'm aware that usage differs.  I think that (parentheses), [square
brackets], {curly braces}, and <angle brackets> (or less-than
greater-than) are unambiguous.

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Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
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