Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:48095 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 6582 invoked from network); 26 Apr 2010 16:17:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 26 Apr 2010 16:17:02 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=hannes.magnusson@gmail.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=hannes.magnusson@gmail.com; sender-id=pass; domainkeys=bad Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain gmail.com designates 74.125.82.170 as permitted sender) DomainKey-Status: bad X-DomainKeys: Ecelerity dk_validate implementing draft-delany-domainkeys-base-01 X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: hannes.magnusson@gmail.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 74.125.82.170 mail-wy0-f170.google.com Received: from [74.125.82.170] ([74.125.82.170:51151] helo=mail-wy0-f170.google.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 86/3A-58325-D7CB5DB4 for ; Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:17:02 -0400 Received: by wyf28 with SMTP id 28so2838424wyf.29 for ; Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:16:57 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=4wPDixlKIcRubQKMu9wD+0rqvvqfKUKBX44TpGYN7IA=; b=R+f0y/lnNX5LhTMkUrrmZ6KwYDLwL41AhBhS3WsUWpdVYV7sLFgihZ9NRZqNxXxbxS GGDDgz6fr5NtZTUJ1GJ1C9paZrJJjAwaTq+3qVPR7vo2uDAt6rHd0Z1XzXgjQeqMhKB0 4GuaUp3sa+ewadQCcn6wenS/8L+78z+Q4tAVo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=tvWY3C8IWdaFEqumg3LCu96JcU/59LBWWVC6bZPk8GdhYIqaP9wCS+Ir5yad5TZcxG jW0JwlNdLo4wiNy9E0bmVdy4yjLtKy/MIUkpdF7xgaMzO2rq8wh19MYZX6VsMvtRbTYa VocMA+q+64rcbHsBqDa39XWG0xaCqxTFQB9vM= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.169.84 with SMTP id m62mr313406wel.130.1272298617575; Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:16:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.172.84 with HTTP; Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:16:57 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4BD5A3EB.8090403@easyflirt.com> References: <4BD5A3EB.8090403@easyflirt.com> Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:16:57 +0200 Message-ID: To: "mathieu.suen" Cc: PHP internals Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Obscure token name From: hannes.magnusson@gmail.com (Hannes Magnusson) On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 16:32, mathieu.suen 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