# rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

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- Started by james.butler@edigitalresearch.com on 2010-10-30T15:23:49+00:00
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## #50011 — james.butler@edigitalresearch.com — 2010-10-30T15:23:49+00:00

URL: https://externals.io/message/50011#50011

As a further reason, (not that I think that's it needed)

When doing anything vaguely specialist,  e.g engineering, medicine, sport, you require a precise set of terminology so two or more people can communicate clearly. The result of this is that if you want to play in a domain, you must be prepared to learn and use domain specific language/terms/acronyms. 

The double colon is example of this.

We can lead the horse to water, but we can't make him drink.

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