From the manual:
T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM :: ::. Also defined as T_DOUBLE_COLON.
http://php.net/manual/en/tokens.php
T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM is hardly un-google-able.
- Davey
On Apr 27, 2010, at 2:50 AM, mathieu.suen wrote:
> Hannes Magnusson wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 16:32, mathieu.suen <mathieu.suen@easyflirt.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am wondering why is the token name so incomprehensible ?
>>> Like T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM...
>>>
>>
>> "Paamayim Nekudotayim would, at first, seem like a strange choice for
>> naming a double-colon. However, while writing the Zend Engine 0.5
>> (which powers PHP 3), that's what the Zend team decided to call it. It
>> actually does mean double-colon - in Hebrew!"
>>
>> http://php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.paamayim-nekudotayim.php
>>
>> -Hannes
>>
>>
> Then T_DOUBLE_COLON would have been perfectly clear.
>
> -- Mathieu Suen
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