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Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2020 10:58:17 -0600
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To: "G. P. B." <george.banyard@gmail.com>
Cc: PHP internals <internals@lists.php.net>, Kalle Sommer Nielsen <kalle@php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV][RFC] Rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON
From: ryan.jentzsch@gmail.com (Ryan Jentzsch)

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With over 25+ years of software development experience it was In 2016 I was
introduced to the world of PHP development.
One day I came across the most unusual of error messages
"T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM" What the hell is this?!?
That I needed to waste my time to Google this is simply insane. At the time
I thought to myself that PHP deserved some of the hate. Then I came across
this gem: https://phil.tech/2013/t-paamayim-nekudotayim-v-sanity/
Please for the sake of logic and sanity replace this nonsense with
T_DOUBLE_COLON

On Wed, Jun 10, 2020, 9:14 AM G. P. B. <george.banyard@gmail.com> wrote:

>  Greetings PHP internals,
>
> Kalle Sommer Nielsen and myself are proposing to rename the
> T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM
> token into the already existing T_DOUBLE_COLON alias,
> T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM would then become an alias to T_DOUBLE_COLON.
>
> The RFC is located here:
> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/rename-double-colon-token
>
> Although this token is a nod to the valuable contributions made by the
> Isrealie community we believe this token is rather confusing for newcomers.
> Moreso, as PHP is for many people their first programming language,
> they may not have some of the habits like googling errors when
> they are stuck, which leads to a frustrating experience.
>
> As we believe PHP still has many years of existence we think it is time
> to rename this token.
>
> This is backwards compatible with PHP 7 and 5.
> This RFC does not lay out a plan for deprecating T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM
> and leaves this as a future scope.
>
> As the matter on hand is a relatively straight forward yes/no vote we
> expect
> it to be held after the minimum 2 week discussion period.
>
> Best regards
>
> George Peter Banyard
>

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