bracing for a firestorm

[Alex Martelli]

"Grant Edwards" <grante at visi.com> wrote in message
news:slrn9gjsdt.p1.grante at tuxtop.visi.com...
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> Is bigraph the right word for things like >= == != /* */ and so
> on?

"digraph" would be more usual, to avoid mixing a
Latin root (bi-) and a Greek one (-graph).  Alas,
it's also an often-used abbreviation for "directed
graph" -- still, it IS in the English dictionary
as meaning "group of two letters", so extending
that to mean "group of two characters" doesn't
sound strange at all to me.


Alex