Re: Obscure token name

You can pry T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM from my cold dead fingers! On 4/27/10, mathieu.suen <mathieu.suen@easyflirt.com> wrote: > OMG More than 100 token > I am pretty sure that more than 50% are syntactic sugar. > > > > > Davey Shafik wrote: >> From the manual: >> >> T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM :: ::. Also defined as T_DOUBLE_COLON. >> >> http://php.net/manual/en/tokens.php >> >> T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM is hardly un-google-able. >> >> - Davey >> >> On Apr 27, 2010, at 2:50 AM, mathieu.suen wrote: >> >> >>> Hannes Magnusson wrote: >>> >>>> 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 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> Then T_DOUBLE_COLON would have been perfectly clear. >>> >>> -- Mathieu Suen >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List >>> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >>> >>> > > -- Mathieu Suen > > > > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >