Many programming languages, including Java, typically associate round brackets or parentheses with methods. The parameter list for a method is always placed in round brackets in Java: public void ...

I posted in a Lounge thread today, and the two instances where I placed something in parentheses (like this), it turned the open parenthesis into an open bracket for no apparent reason. I edited ...

Parentheses (the single ... and different programming languages (to enclose groups of statements). Chevrons, or angle brackets, are also largely confined to specialized use. In programming markup ...