hakparenteser

Hakparenteser is a term found in some Swedish-language glossaries to refer to a class of punctuation marks that are used to enclose content. In practice, the most familiar members of this class are the angle brackets, printed as less-than and greater-than signs (< and >). The term is not widely standardized across reference works, and in mainstream Swedish terminology they are more commonly called vinkelparenteser or simply angle brackets. Nevertheless, hakparenteser appears in niche writings to describe the same marks, especially when discussing their distinctive “hook-like” or enclosing function in various contexts.

The primary uses of angle brackets are in markup languages and in programming. In HTML and XML, content inside angle brackets denotes tags that define elements, such as <p> for a paragraph or </p> to close it. In many programming languages, angle brackets enclose generic type parameters, as in List<T> or Map<K, V>, indicating parameterized types. In plain text, to prevent misinterpretation by parsers, the characters are often escaped as &lt; and &gt; in contexts where they would otherwise be treated as markup.

Typography and encoding considerations are important when hakparenteser appear in documents. Some fonts render angle brackets with distinctive chevron shapes, and in certain languages or vertical text layouts, full-width variants may be used. When displaying angle brackets in environments that do not support markup, escaping or replacing them with descriptive placeholders helps avoid confusion or parsing errors. See also angle brackets, chevrons, and markup languages.