Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:49985 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 77053 invoked from network); 30 Oct 2010 01:50:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 30 Oct 2010 01:50:55 -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] ([216.119.135.130:55313] helo=a2s40.a2hosting.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 35/51-04551-FF97BCC4 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 21:50:55 -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 1PC0aq-0007XS-Jg for internals@lists.php.net; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 21:50:52 -0400 Message-ID: <4CCB7A0C.3090407@codeangel.org> Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 20:51:08 -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 CC: internals@lists.php.net References: <4CCB6B21.1070708@codeangel.org> <4CCB70CE.90901@rowe-clan.net> <4CCB7247.7020408@codeangel.org> <57DF12F0-6BFD-4058-B854-6710457AF692@macvicar.net> In-Reply-To: <57DF12F0-6BFD-4058-B854-6710457AF692@macvicar.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; 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 (Chad Emrys) On 10/29/2010 08:24 PM, Scott MacVicar wrote: > On Oct 29, 2010, at 6:17 PM, admin wrote: > > >> 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. >> >> > using a name like "admin" in your email headers isn't going to be very receptive. > > For what its worth its Hebrew for double colon. I'm all for the change, will see what I can do next week. > > - S > > Oops, sorry didn't even notice it was there, I don't send mail from this account much. Should be fixed. Though I don't care what my name has to do with reception. What is in a name anyway?