Re:I was asked to crack a program in a job interview
by Swizec on Wednesday September 17, 2014 @03:26PM
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Your description leads me to believe I confused emdashes and endashes again. Happens every time.
Re:I was asked to crack a program in a job interview
by morninj on Thursday September 18, 2014 @04:01PM
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> En-dashes have one use
Actually, the en dash has more than one use: http://cddc.uchicago.edu/qanda/data/faq/topics/HyphensEnDash...
In English, Em-dashes have a couple of different uses, but in the most common use they are usually set closed (no spaces on either end), though some styles set them with a space on either end. En-dashes have one use (similar to that of em-dashes, which is used varies by house style) where they are usually set open, and a number where they are usually set closed.
Given that the rules for these marks aren't particularly consistent, or even fixed, in English, I think its safe to say they aren't consistent for the same piece of punctuation across all uses in all Indo-European languages.