RE: [PHP] How to pronounce PHP code over the phone?

From: Ashley Sheridan > 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. > 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! The only time I would even consider doing that would be when I am using a TTD connection to communicate with a hearing impaired individual. Bob McConnell