Re: Obscure token name
| From: | mathieu.suen | Date: | Tue, 27 Apr 2010 06:50:55 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Obscure token name | ||
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Hannes Magnusson wrote:
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 16:32, mathieu.suen <mathieu.suen@easyflirt.com> wrote:-- Mathieu SuenHi, 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 Then T_DOUBLE_COLON would have been perfectly clear.