RE: { Curly Braces } { Curly Brackets }

XQuery has been using curly brace, consistently, since XQuery 1.0.  By the same argument, we must have had that right in the past ;->

This came up because of the suggestion that I change curly brace to curly bracket in one place in XQuery.  A bunch of programming languages call these curly braces, or just braces, and the HTML entity is {

Probably worth discussing.  Sounds like XQuery and XSLT may have been using different terms for a long time.

Jonathan

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From: Michael Kay [mike@saxonica.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2015 7:10 AM
To: Robie, Jonathan
Cc: Public Joint XSLT XQuery XPath
Subject: Re: { Curly Braces } { Curly Brackets }

XSLT uses “curly bracket” 38 times and “curly brace” 6 times. The latter seem to be all in new text, so we must have had it right in the past, and been infected by the incorrect usage more recently. I shall change to “curly bracket” throughout.

Michael Kay
Saxonica

On 6 Oct 2015, at 11:51, Robie, Jonathan <jonathan.robie@emc.com<mailto:jonathan.robie@emc.com>> wrote:

The XQuery and XPath specifications call { } curly braces throughout, and have for a long time.

Unicode calls these curly brackets.

Should I stick with XQuery tradition or change this now in the 3.1 specifications?

Jonathan