# actually the short way returns an error / PARENTHESES (OT)

[Christopher Mitchell]

But not all circumflexes should be pointy, and since standard ascii 
doesn't allow for combining characters how was this intended to be 
useful as a character on a computer keyboard?  (just thinking outloud, 
as someone very familiar with using alt-key combinations and accents, 
including circumflex, this has always seemed like a second-best choice 
for what would be on the 6 key - and just following as a vestige of 
typewriters that actually allowed a back-up & overstrike)

Yours,
Chris
On Feb 22, 2004, at 10:12 AM, Thomas McGrath III wrote:

> circumflex is the language reference for ^ (shift 6) but is also 
> referred to as the caret key.
>
>
> On Feb 22, 2004, at 10:36 AM, Marian Petrides wrote:
>
>> Actually a caret  is  a ^  (shift 6 on your keyboard).  Is "carrot" 
>> the correct jargonese or just a misspelling of "caret?"
>>
>> M
>>
>> On Feb 22, 2004, at 9:45 AM, Thomas McGrath III wrote:
>>
>>> < > are angle brackets in typography! but in computer jargon they 
>>> have always been called carrots around here....
>>>
>>>
>>> Tom
>>>
>>> On Feb 22, 2004, at 7:09 AM, shishilite at hotpop.com wrote:
>>>
>>>>> What is the english name of these <>?
>>>>
>>>> I thought these are called "angle brackets" ? :)
>>>>
>>>> http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/a/angle_brackets.html
>>>>
>>>> Shishi
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