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Questions about history and usage of the word paren The term there used is parens, separately designated open paren and close paren The terminology has stayed current in typography since If your account of the tech industry is accurate, it sounds like they similarly adopted it when developing typefaces for computers, after which it may have trickled into other kinds of development
What is the common name for brackets, braces, and parentheses? Finally, so that this answer addresses everything asked, I'll reiterate that are parentheses; one of them is a parenthesis; and that these can be freely shortened to parens and paren, respectively, especially when talking to programmers
(Parentheses (inside parentheses)) - English Language Usage Stack . . . The old typographical convention which I was told years ago by a retired typesetter, is that if one has nested parenthetical expressions, different characters are used for the inner parenthetical than the outer, so the outer expression is parenthesis, the next level of parenthesis is square brackets, and the next set after that is parentheses again, or sometimes curved brackets, so the pattern
punctuation - Is it acceptable to nest parentheses? - English Language . . . @Orbling: Yes, though after I started programming I rankled under the restriction Why not have subgroups set off by extra parens? But the point is, code and mathematical expressions are usually set off with whitespace to be readable, and a good IDE will show you the opening brace when you put the cursor next to the closing brace, etc Writing
Where does the period go when using parentheses? Where should the period go when using parentheses? For example: In sentence one, I use this example (which has a parenthesis at the end ) Should the period be inside, or outside of the parentheses?
parent vs parents, which is the correct word to use? Besides the singular plural difference there's always some confusion as to attributive forms, e g , parent meeting vs parents meeting or parent's meeting vs parents' meeting
Brackets Vs Parenthesis - English Language Usage Stack Exchange The term there used is parens, separately designated open paren and close paren [Footnote 37] The word bracket signifies only one thing to a compositor Asking him to use a "square" bracket is unnecessary The terms open paren and close paren remain common in U S publishing today