Re: Obscure token name
| From: | Hannes Magnusson | Date: | Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:16:57 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Obscure token name | ||
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On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 16:32, mathieu.suen <mathieu.suen@easyflirt.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am wondering why is the token name so incomprehensible ?
> Like T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM...
"Paamayim Nekudotayim would, at first, seem like a strange choice for
naming a double-colon. However, while writing the Zend Engine 0.5
(which powers PHP 3), that's what the Zend team decided to call it. It
actually does mean double-colon - in Hebrew!"
http://php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.paamayim-nekudotayim.php
-Hannes