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
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