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

From: Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:10:57 +0000
Subject: RE: [PHP] How to pronounce PHP code over the phone?
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At 12:59 PM -0400 10/16/09, Bob McConnell wrote:
From: tedd
At 4:51 PM +0100 10/16/09, Ashley Sheridan wrote:
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
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