Re: How to pronounce PHP code over the phone?

From:	Robert Cummings	Date:	Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:10:19 +0000
Subject:	Re: How to pronounce PHP code over the phone?
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Bob McConnell wrote:

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.

Bracket... two syllables and ambiguous. Round Brace... two syllables and not ambiguous. For terse clarity use the following:

    - round brace
    - square brace
    - curly brace
    - angle brace

:) Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP