Re: How to pronounce PHP code over the phone?

On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 18:01 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > 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 Not that I know of, and trying to explain any sort of code over the phone is just going to lead to a disaster down the line! Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk