RE: [PHP] -> operator and :: (formal names?)

Katie Marquez wrote: > Hi! > > I did a search of the PHP manual for these: > > -> and :: > > I know what they are used for, but what I don't know > is what they are formally called. Can someone tell me > what they are called (short of using the symbol in the > name)? I don't know what PHP's official name for these operators are but in Perl the "->" is called the "infix arrow operator" since it lies between its operands (the instance variable and the attribute or method name). I've seen the "::" referred to as the "double-colon operator", but I don't know how offical that is either. :) HTH