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Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 09:09:50 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON
From: mike.vanriel@naenius.com (Mike Van Riel)

On 30 okt 2010, at 08:34, Sebastian Bergmann <sebastian@php.net> wrote:

> On 10/30/2010 11:53 AM, Andi Gutmans wrote:
>> I would prefer this was not changed.
>
> +1 (for the same reasons)
>

I agree with Andi, Rasmus and the other people in favor.

This token name is part of the history of PHP and adds to it's  
uniqueness.

But besides this: renaming the constant is probably not going to solve  
the problem (at least not anytime soon).

Changing this constant would mean breaking BC (some people using the  
tokenizer extension might use it) and thus officially it should only  
be implemented in PHP-next.
This means that the support requests will be coming in for a long time  
as it not even planned for release or anything.

Suppose that this rename would happen in the next minor release: most  
shared hosts lag immensily with their installed PHP version and I  
reckon most questions come from inexperienced / starting developers  
working with / on said hosts. And this means it will again take a long  
time before you notice any effect. (not to mention that Linux distros  
also lag).

(additionally I wonder why people ask such a simple question on IRC  
whilst googling provides your answer faster..)

Bottom line: I'd opt for keeping it.

Kind regards,

Mike van Riel