Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:48101 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 31513 invoked from network); 27 Apr 2010 06:51:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 27 Apr 2010 06:51:01 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=mathieu.suen@easyflirt.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=mathieu.suen@easyflirt.com; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain easyflirt.com designates 91.199.255.56 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: mathieu.suen@easyflirt.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 91.199.255.56 python-06.easyrencontre.com Linux 2.6 Received: from [91.199.255.56] ([91.199.255.56:56151] helo=mail.easyflirt.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 98/A5-30049-45986DB4 for ; Tue, 27 Apr 2010 02:51:00 -0400 Received: from [192.168.0.51] (office.easyrencontre.com [78.155.152.6]) by mail.easyflirt.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 66DA8636EF0; Tue, 27 Apr 2010 08:50:57 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4BD6894F.9000109@easyflirt.com> Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 08:50:55 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20100411) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Hannes Magnusson CC: PHP internals References: <4BD5A3EB.8090403@easyflirt.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Obscure token name From: mathieu.suen@easyflirt.com ("mathieu.suen") Hannes Magnusson wrote: > 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 > > Then T_DOUBLE_COLON would have been perfectly clear. -- Mathieu Suen