RE: [PHP-DEV] Obscure token name

>-----Original Message----- >From: Davey Shafik [mailto:davey@php.net] >Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 6:03 AM >To: mathieu.suen >Cc: Hannes Magnusson; PHP internals >Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Obscure token name > > >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. The rest of PHP5 is in English, why do I have to strain my brain or fire up my browser to decipher "Unexpected token T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM on line ## in <filename>". How many native Hebrew speaking programmers will be put off by changing this to T_DOUBLE_COLON? I guess it could be argued that I would have my browser already running to reference the mess of PHP functions anyway. :P > >- 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 >> > > >-- >PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List >To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >