What are the curly bracket characters { } called?
I have worked as a programmer and these symbols are used widely in computer programming and I have only ever heard them called curly brackets A more detailed description Curly brackets or braces { } Curly brackets (so-called in British English; North American English prefers braces) are sometimes used in prose to indicate a series of equal choices: “Select your animal {goat, sheep, cow, horse} and follow me”. They are used in specialized ways in poetry and music (to mark repeats or joined lines). In mathematics they are used to delimit sets. Presumably due to the similarity of the words brace and bracket (although they do not share an etymology), many people casually treat brace as a synonym for bracket. Therefore, when it is necessary to avoid any possibility of confusion, such as in computer programming, it may be best to use the term curly bracket rather than brace. However, general usage in North American English favors the latter form. The term curly braces is redundant since no o
