PUNCTUATION SYMBOLS

PUNCTUATION SYMBOLS

You use punctuation to add clarity and readability to your writing. Below is a list of the different symbols used for punctuation.

NAMES OF PUNCTUATION MARKS

Symbol
<   >	Angle brackets
’	Apostrophe (heittomerkki)
*	Asterisk
\	Backslash
(   )		Brackets	Parentheses
:	Colon
,	Comma (pilkku)
{   }		Curly brackets	French braces
—	Dash (ajatusviiva)
“   ”		Inverted commas	Quotation marks
‘   ’		Single inverted commas	Single quotation marks
. . .	Ellipsis points
!	Exclamation mark
.		Full stop	Period
-	Hyphen (sidosmerkki)
?	Question mark
;	Semi-colon
/	Slash/oblique/stroke
[   ]		Square brackets	Brackets

The caret /ˈkærət/ is an inverted V-shaped grapheme.

It is the spacing character ^ in ASCII [...] and other character sets that may also be called a hat, control, uparrow, or less frequently chevron, xor sign, to the power of, pointer [...] or wedge.

Officially, this character is referred to as circumflex accent in both ASCII and Unicode terminology (because of its historical use in overstrike), whereas caret refers to a similar but lowered Unicode character: U+2038 ‸ CARET.

Programmers version

As programmers, we deal with a lot of unusual keyboard characters that typical users rarely need to type, much less think about:

$ # % {} * [] ~ & <>

Even the characters that are fairly regularly used in everyday writing -- such as the humble dash, parens, period, and question mark -- have radically different meaning in programming languages.

This is all well and good, but you'll eventually have to read code out loud to another developer for some reason. And then you're in an awkward position, indeed.

How do you pronounce these unusual ASCII characters?

We all do it, but we don't necessarily think much about the words we choose. I certainly hadn't thought much about this until yesterday, when I read the following comment left on Exploring Wide Finder:

A friend sent me a Java code fragment in which he looped through printing "Thank You!" a million times (it was a response to a professor who had extended the deadline on a paper). I responded with a single line of Ruby to do the same, and a single line of Lisp.

He wrote back: "Underscores, pipes, octothorpes, curly braces -- sheesh... I'll take a mild dose of verbosity if means I don't have to code something that looks like it's been zipped already!"

What the heck is an octothorpe? I know this as the pound key, but that turns out to be a US-centric word; most other cultures know it as the hash key.

I'm often surprised to hear what other programmers name their ASCII characters. Not that the words I personally use to identify my ASCII characters are any more correct, but there's far more variability than you'd expect considering the rigid, highly literal mindset of most programmers.

Perhaps that's why I was so excited to discover the ASCII entry in The New Hacker's Dictionary, which Phil Glockner turned me on to. It's a fairly exhaustive catalog of the common names, rare names, and occasionally downright weird names that programmers associate with the ASCII characters sprinkled throughout their code.

How many of these ASCII pronunciations do you recognize? Which ones are the "correct" ones in your shop?

	Common Names	Rare Names
!	exclamation mark bang pling excl not shriek	factorial exclam smash cuss boing yell wow hey wham eureka spark-spot soldier control
"	quotation marks quote double quote	literal mark double-glitch dieresis dirk rabbit-ears double prime
#	hash pound sign number sign pound sharp crunch hex mesh	grid crosshatch octothorpe flash square pig-pen tictactoe scratchmark thud thump splat
$	dollar sign dollar	currency symbol buck cash string escape ding cache big money
%	percent sign mod grapes	double-oh-seven
&	ampersand amp amper and and sign	address reference andpersand bitand background pretzel
'	apostrophe single quote quote	prime glitch tick irk pop spark closing single quotation mark acute accent
( )	opening / closing parenthesis left / right paren left / right parenthesis left / right open / close open / close paren paren / thesis	so/already lparen/rparen opening/closing parenthesis opening/closing round bracket left/right round bracket wax/wane parenthisey/unparenthisey left/right ear
[ ]	opening / closing bracket left / right bracket left / right square bracket bracket / unbracket	square / unsquare u turn / u turn back
{ }	opening / closing brace open / close brace left / right brace left / right squiggly left / right squiggly bracket/brace left / right curly bracket/brace	brace / unbrace curly / uncurly leftit / rytit left / right squirrelly embrace / bracelet
< >	less / greater than bra / ket left / right angle left / right angle bracket left / right broket	from / into (or towards) read from / write to suck / blow comes-from / gozinta in / out crunch / zap tic / tac angle / right angle
*	asterisk star splat	wildcard gear dingle mult spider aster times twinkle glob Nathan Hale
+	plus add	cross intersection
,	comma	cedilla tail
-	dash hyphen minus	worm option dak bithorpe
.	period dot point decimal point	radix point full stop spot
/	slash stroke slant forward slash	diagonal solidus over slak virgule slat
\	backslash hack whack escape reverse slash slosh backslant backwhack	bash reverse slant reversed virgule backslat
:	colon	dots two-spot
;	semicolon semi	weenie hybrid pit-thwong
=	equals gets takes	quadrathorpe half-mesh
?	question mark query ques	quiz whatmark what wildchar huh hook buttonhook hunchback
@	at sign at strudel	each vortex whorl whirlpool cyclone snail ape cat rose cabbage commercial at
^	circumflex caret hat control uparrow	xor sign chevron shark (or shark-fin) to the fang pointer
_	underline underscore underbar under	score backarrow skid flatworm
`	grave accent backquote left quote left single quote open quote grave	backprime backspark unapostrophe birk blugle back tick back glitch push opening single quote quasiquote
|	bar or or-bar v-bar pipe vertical bar	vertical line gozinta thru pipesinta spike
~	tilde squiggle twiddle not	approx wiggle swung dash enyay sqiggle (sic)

If you're curious about the derivation of some of the odder names here, there are an extensive set of footnotes (and even more possible pronunciations) at the ascii-table.com pronunciation guide.

So the next time a programmer walks up to you and says, "oh, it's easy! Just type wax bang at hash buck grapes circumflex and splat wane", you'll know what they mean.

Maybe.

原文出处 http://sana.aalto.fi/awe/punctuation/symbols.html

https://blog.codinghorror.com/ascii-pronunciation-rules-for-programmers/