robla<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@ethanschoonover" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ethanschoonover</span></a></span> - I've referred to them as "squirrelly brackets" or "squirrelly braces" or "curly brackets" for as long as I've been using a computer (and I received my <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/CompSci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CompSci</span></a> degree decades ago). I'm pretty sure my professors from decades ago used those terms interchangeably too. <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/squirrelly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>squirrelly</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/brackets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>brackets</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/braces" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>braces</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/curly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>curly</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/SquirrellyBrackets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SquirrellyBrackets</span></a></p>