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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Obscure token name
From: mathieu.suen@easyflirt.com ("mathieu.suen")

Johannes Schlüter wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 16:32 +0200, mathieu.suen wrote:
>   
>> I am wondering why is the token name so incomprehensible ?
>> Like T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM...
>>     
>
> I don't mind if we change the name in the error message. Seems to be an
> issue for some ... but I think you have to look it (quickly) up the
> first time you stumble over it and then remember it so it shouldn't be a
> tooo big issue.
> If you fear typing it: The tokenizer extension already provides
> T_DOUBLE_COLON as synonym :-)
>
> php> $t=token_get_all("<?::"); // Token 0: <?   Token 1: ::
> php> var_dump($t[1][0] == T_DOUBLE_COLON && $t[1][0] == T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM);
> bool(true)
>
> johannes
>
>
>   
The question is that I want to understand  error messages.
I can google it but that is not a good way of doing things.
Stefan got the right answer: "Better parser errors"

--Mathieu Suen