Re: Obscure token name

From: Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:02:31 +0000
Subject: Re: Obscure token name
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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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