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Re: briskets etc.
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Re: briskets etc.


  • Subject: Re: briskets etc.
  • From: George Mack <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 20:51:45 -0400

From: Mr Tea <email@hidden>

I've never quite known what to call those bracket/asterisk combinations that
can be used to comment-out blocks of code in scripts.

So I would like to humbly propose that we call them 'briskets'. As in: "To
enable the positive response in this script, simply remove the briskets".

I like the idea, but object to the word bracket. To me, bracket exclusively refers to "[" and "]". They are parenthese/asterisk pairs, so I would prefer one of the following:

pasterisk
parasterisk
parisk

All you pedants! Forbear! Mr. Tea had the best, and most entertaining, suggestion yet. None of you has a patch on "briskets". I like "briskets". (For that matter, I like briskets too.) Accept Mr. Tea's offering (and I haven't quite understood whether said offering also includes a warm pot and its contents), or go off and ruminate until you come up with something better.


How about "commentators"? (Though I think Briskets have the same panache as Osaxen...)
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