Re: How to pronounce PHP code over the phone?

> Wow! Here goes: > > Open-bracket, dollar item hypen greater-than, get service id, no all one word but with a > capital S and I. Open and close brackets, question mark, dollar item again, then a hyphen and > greater-than, that get service id and brackets bit again, exactly the same as last time; yes, > capital S and I again.. Colon, no the colon is the one with two dots, not dot and comma. Dollar item > again, then hypen, greater-than, get id, with a capital I. Nope, no service bit this time. Now, open > bracket and two closing brackets (I assumed the final two on your example were typos?!). now a > semi-colon, yes the one with the comma. > > That's pretty much how I could foresee me telling someone this on the phone, but to be > honest, I'd really prefer an email ;) > So it really involves mentioning each character. I was hoping that there would be a shared language for constructs such as -> and the like. Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il