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Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 09:02:31 -0400
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Obscure token name
From: davey@php.net (Davey Shafik)

=46rom 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:
>> =20
>>> Hi,
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>>> I am wondering why is the token name so incomprehensible ?
>>> Like T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM...
>>>   =20
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>> "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!"
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>> http://php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.paamayim-nekudotayim.php
>>=20
>> -Hannes
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>> =20
> Then T_DOUBLE_COLON would have been perfectly clear.
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> -- Mathieu Suen
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