> — How about the left angle bracket "<"? Is that at least a "bracket"?
> No.
> — Why not?
> Because it's a LESS-THAN SIGN.
It's petty, and there are bigger problems, but this is one of my main gripes against SGML and its successors.
> No.
> — Why not?
> Because it's a LESS-THAN SIGN.
It's petty, and there are bigger problems, but this is one of my main gripes against SGML and its successors.
It's made even worse by "programmer fonts" that make the glyphs for less-than/greater-than look like angle-brackets, which is just wrong; now there's no way to write the comparators.
I guess we all just wish that ASCII (and/or keyboards) had one or two more pairs of brackets.
Imagine pressing < (SHIFT+.) in an editor and getting a pop up autocomplete listbox of a dozen bracket pair combinations.