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== new punctuation; punctuation combinations == I am curious about new punctuation usage, mostly in e-mail and Web site pages. I have searched on Google but have had no success finding any definitive meanings for the following punctuation symbols: (::) and (.:) I am interested to know if anyone in this community has researched this topic. thanks >> bartlett@b-creative.com -- [[User:Jrbartlettjr]] :Try [[IPv6]], particularly the section on Notation. --[[User:CatherineMunro|Catherine]] | [[User_talk:CatherineMunro|talk]] 07:13, 18 Sep 2004 (UTC) :Also see the [[C Plus Plus|C++]] programming language, where (::) is used as a namespace operator. [[User:Dmeranda|Dmeranda]] 03:04, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC) :Also used in [[ratio]]s e.g. 2:3::4:6 [[User:Rich Farmbrough|Rich Farmbrough]] 22:11, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)
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