I feel the case could be made that knowing the explode syntax is obsolete because you should have code hints. That being said, in language the general theme fol

I feel the case could be made that knowing the explode syntax is obsolete because you should have code hints. That being said, in language the general theme follows English language sentence syntax with the verb abstracted to the function name. As in verb(subject, predicate, preposition) Think of it as a sentence, you would say "Separator exploded the string" The verb is exploded, so that's the function, Seperator would be first, then the string, and any modifiers which would be equivalent to prepositions, as in "Separator exploded the string at the first occurrence". Anyhow that's what used to be taught as best practice if you were developing a new language.