Re: [Haskell-cafe] Problems with square root...

MG> () <- Parenthesis MG> {} <- Braces MG> [] <- Brackets MG> Sorry to be pedantic, but using the wrong terminology confuses me and MG> I'm sure others as well. This is true for Haskell, but Daniel is correct if he is calling () "Brackets" because they are, in British English, right? (Just like '.' is a 'period' in US, but it is a 'full stop' in UK.). Of course, English /= Haskell so in Haskell I guess they are called Parenthesized Expressions (in the Haskell report http://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/exps.html). To be extra pedantic, I would call {} Curly Braces (or Curly Brackets, or squiggly brackets, or squiggles, or ... just use layout and whitespace!) and I would call [] Square Brackets. Then no one gets confused. Cheerio, Jared P.S. IANAA = I am an American, so I could very well be wrong about British English!

On 12/21/05, Daniel Carrera wrote:

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Daniel Carrera wrote:

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Hey,

The sqrt function is not doing what I want. This is what I want:

round sqrt(2)

Sigh... never fails. Spend an hour trying to solve a problem, and a minute after you write to the list you find the solution. I need brackets around sqrt. I'm surprised though. I don't understand why it dosn't work without brackets.

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