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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV][RFC] Rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON
From: smalyshev@gmail.com (Stanislav Malyshev)

Hi!

>> a) Character count (at line 456, character 23)
>>
>> b) Quote either the remainder or the parsed section on the line (MySQL
>> quotes the remainder, for example)
>>
>> c) Quote the whole line with an indicator where the error occurred. I'm
>> not sure what the best way to do this would be - generically this could
>> be encapsulated in several values: The line content, token start
>> character count, token length / end character count
>>
> 
> I really like the combination of A + C. After using php for 13 years the

If we could do the same as, for example, clang does: just display some
indication where the problem happened within the code, with the line
that caused it. Certainly not displaying internal token names, unless I
am debugging the parser they are useless.

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Stas Malyshev
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