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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON
From: nrixham@gmail.com (Nathan Rixham)

Stan Vass wrote:
> It's amazing to me this has become such a long discussion. The facts are 
> simple:
> 
> 1) People don't ask for the other parse errors even half as often as 
> they as for T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM
> 2) They do so because it looks like gibberish to them, so it looks 
> unlikely to be a common thing you can Google, nor it gives something 
> recignizable to start with
> 3) Yes, to all who are not sure, more people know English than Hebrew.
> 4) Yes, we all acknowledge it's an easter egg joke that refers to the 
> creators of PHP. But that particular joke has outworn its welcome in the 
> community after repeatedly causing support issues.
> 
> T_DOUBLE_COLON already exists as a constant in userland, so the jump to 
> it won't be an epic change. Let's do it as a proof that we're not a nerd 
> gridlock bound to argue forever about even the most minor and obviously 
> positive changes PHP can implement.

Makes sense, just alias it and change the error message thus keeping bc.