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What are these '{' and '}' characters called?

I was just trying to explain programming in JavaScript to a friend of mine who is just starting out with programming and I called the '{' and '}' characters curly braces (or brackets). He laughed at me and said surely they have a better name than that and I realized that I don't know if they do.

Do they have a formal name?

Solution

  • Technically, they are simply known as Braces:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracket#Braces_or_Curly_brackets_.7B_.7D