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Hello,
Hello Adi,

Does anyone know what are the official names for the "->" and "=>"
operators? They don't seem to be included in the PHP documentation,
although I would have expected them to reside in the Operators section of
the manual.

Also, the "" operator used for declaring sub-namespaces is never mentioned
as a proper operator in the PHP manual, let alone have a specific name.
You should take a look at http://php.net/tokens.

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Adi Nita wrote:

Does anyone know what are the official names for the "->" and "=>"
operators? They don't seem to be included in the PHP documentation,
although I would have expected them to reside in the Operators section of
the manual.

The tokens are T_OBJECT_OPERATOR and T_DOUBLE_ARROW respectively, if
that helps: http://www.php.net/manual/en/tokens.php

The namespace operator is T_NS_SEPARATOR.

Hope that helps,

Ryan McCue
<http://ryanmccue.info/

Hi!

Does anyone know what are the official names for the "->" and "=>"
operators? They don't seem to be included in the PHP documentation,
although I would have expected them to reside in the Operators section of
the manual.

=> is not exactly operator, it's part of the array operator syntax (e.g.
array($foo => $bar) produces array from two vars, => by itself is not
used). -> is usually called an arrow operator.

Also, the "" operator used for declaring sub-namespaces is never mentioned
as a proper operator in the PHP manual, let alone have a specific name.

\ is not an operator either, it's a namespace separator.

Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect
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