Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:99780 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 577 invoked from network); 5 Jul 2017 23:15:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 5 Jul 2017 23:15:08 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 95.144.152.253 unknown Received: from [95.144.152.253] ([95.144.152.253:11455] helo=localhost.localdomain) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 77/A3-15131-BF27D595 for ; Wed, 05 Jul 2017 19:15:07 -0400 Message-ID: <77.A3.15131.BF27D595@pb1.pair.com> To: internals@lists.php.net References: <827b77ce-f2b7-930a-34cb-ce11ebc2d531@php.net> <679F251C-FFDA-4D9A-A0C2-89AA767A2402@gmail.com> <1499257709.19635.83.camel@schlueters.de> <3ED2595B-1D73-42E3-8236-56565E73DC03@gmail.com> <0e951dd0d84975bac8cb10ca1b7d4ec2@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2017 00:15:04 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.12; rv:49.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/49.0 SeaMonkey/2.46 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Posted-By: 95.144.152.253 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] OBJECT_OPERATOR vs. DOUBLE_COLON From: ajf@ajf.me (Andrea Faulds) Hi Zeev, Zeev Suraski wrote: > >> On 5 Jul 2017, at 19:09, Lauri Kenttä wrote: >> I'm just wondering if T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM could finally be changed to T_DOUBLE_COLON in, say, PHP 8? > > I for one would love not repeating that discussion once over... I realize some people aren't fond of this token, but it's at the level of harmlessness - and at least to some a part of the PHP folklore - that we should find better things to do than take another stab at removing it. If we remove the name T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM for :: then learning how to correctly pronounce it won't be fun anymore! But I'm a linguist, and you speak Hebrew, so maybe it's cruel on others ;) -- Andrea Faulds https://ajf.me/