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2010-01-01T04:58:44.944-05:00

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Mike, Angle brackets (〈 and 〉) are angle brackets...

2009-12-12T12:02:31.199-05:00

Mike,

Angle brackets (〈 and 〉) are angle brackets (and that's what they're properly called). You're correct that they're not less than and greater than symbols. However, the math symbols, because they're on the keyboard and because programmers and program language designers other than Donald Knuth have never understood squat about typographic symbols, are substituted for angle brackets in program code.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angle_bracket for further discussion.

And thanks for your kind exaggeration. 〈grin /〉

I've encountered variations on your experience...

2009-12-12T11:42:09.294-05:00

I've encountered variations on your experience as I'm prone to using &ltgrin&gt rather than the ubiquitous "smiley" to make my humorous intent obvious..

Note: in attempting to use &ltgrin&gt but with the actual symbols rather than the pseudocode, I received the error message "Your HTML cannot be accepted: Tag is not allowed: GRIN".

However, given that I'm somewhat of a fellow curmudgeon, I've been trying to avoid the common usage "angle bracket" to denote the "less than" and "greater than" symbols.

I've also resisted drinking the Kool-Aid® on the usages "square brackets" for the [ and ] symbols (brackets) and "curly brackets for the { and } symbols (braces).

I know it's not true but sometimes it seems like I'm the only out there who has retained the memory of the correct names for these symbols.

And Dick, in spite of your statement that you know just enough to be dangerous, you're one of the bright lights of the web and you know far more than many so-called experts.

Mike

Michael, Thanks for your comment. I spent a decad...

2009-12-12T10:58:32.398-05:00

Michael,

Thanks for your comment. I spent a decade as a tech writer, so I know just enough to be dangerous ;-)

Yes. There are other motivations for exercising t...

2009-12-12T10:45:39.396-05:00

Yes. There are other motivations for exercising this test idea, too. One important motivation is to investigate the possibility of vulnerability to cross-site scripting (XSS).

In this post, I also appreciate the fact that you've avoided the use of the term "special characters". Any character is potentially special in one context or another.

---Michael B.