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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Obscure token name
From: martin@divbyzero.net (Martin Jansen)

On 29.4.2010 13:13, mathieu.suen wrote:
> 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
>>   
> The question is that I want to understand  error messages.
> I can google it but that is not a good way of doing things.

Folks, can't you just accept that T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM is intended to
make you smile?  There's nothing to see here, please move along.

- Martin