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

From: tedd > At 4:51 PM +0100 10/16/09, Ashley Sheridan wrote: >>On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 17:46 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> >>> How would you read this out loud if you were to read it to someone >>> over the phone? >>> >>> ($item->getServiceId() ? $item->getServiceId() : $item->getId()))); >>> >> >> >>Wow! Here goes: >> >>Open-bracket, > > No, that's not an open bracket -- that's an open parenthesis or > "paren" for short. > > An open bracket is [ > > An open curly brace is { > That depends on which edition of English you use. Take a look at the definition of bracket in Wikipedia. What you call a parenthesis is called a bracket in England and parts of Canada, as well as elsewhere. They specify square bracket for the second one. I stumbled on this one in another mailing list a few years ago. Bob McConnell