Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:49981 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 70522 invoked from network); 30 Oct 2010 01:17:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 30 Oct 2010 01:17:48 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=admin@codeangel.org; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=admin@codeangel.org; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain codeangel.org from 216.119.135.130 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: admin@codeangel.org X-Host-Fingerprint: 216.119.135.130 a2s40.a2hosting.com Windows 98 (1) Received: from [216.119.135.130] ([216.119.135.130:44484] helo=a2s40.a2hosting.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 58/00-04551-A327BCC4 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 21:17:47 -0400 Received: from c-98-212-133-218.hsd1.il.comcast.net ([98.212.133.218] helo=[192.168.0.100]) by a2s40.a2hosting.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PC04m-0007Zi-5y for internals@lists.php.net; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 21:17:44 -0400 Message-ID: <4CCB7247.7020408@codeangel.org> Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 20:17:59 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.15) Gecko/20101027 Thunderbird/3.0.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: internals@lists.php.net References: <4CCB6B21.1070708@codeangel.org> <4CCB70CE.90901@rowe-clan.net> In-Reply-To: <4CCB70CE.90901@rowe-clan.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - a2s40.a2hosting.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - lists.php.net X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - codeangel.org Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON From: admin@codeangel.org (admin) On 10/29/2010 08:11 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: > On 10/29/2010 7:47 PM, admin wrote: > >> WTF is T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM? >> >> This has to be THE most asked question by new php developers when they come across it. >> Can we please change the token name to T_DOUBLE_COLON so I don't have to hear about it >> constantly? >> >> Those that disagree don't do enough PHP support to know how often it is asked. it's worth it. >> > Is it that hard to at least review the mailing list archives before ranting? > > At least posters would sound like they have educated themselves on why what > came to be, and argue sensibly for changes. > > obviously the old arguments didn't work, time to start anew.