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		pavlov on Dec 30, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: An Illustrated History of objc_msgSend So is there are single-word name for "angle brackets", the ones you write with less-than/greater-than symbols? If I had my way, I'd call them pointyparens.

Someone on Dec 30, 2013 [–]

The Hacker's Dictionary (http://www.dourish.com/goodies/jargon.html) calls them Brokets, as shorthand for "broken brackets".

And, by the way, the less pointy variant that is used in 'proper' typography is called a chevron or guillemet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillemet)

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