Re: rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

I'll bite. Why should this be changed? Is it broken? Is it something that 1 second on google can't answer? If somebody is advanced enough to be using classes (I think about the only time you would use a double colon) then they should know what it means. -- James Butler Sent from my iPhone On 30 Oct 2010, at 02:51, "Chad Emrys" <admin@codeangel.org> wrote: > On 10/29/2010 08:24 PM, Scott MacVicar wrote: >> On Oct 29, 2010, at 6:17 PM, admin wrote: >> >> >>> On 10/29/2010 08:11 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: >>> >>>> On 10/29/2010 7:47 PM, admin wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> WTF is T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM? >>>>> >>>>> This has to be THE most asked question by new php developers when they come >>>>> across it. >>>>> Can we please change the token name to T_DOUBLE_COLON so I don't have to >>>>> hear about it >>>>> constantly? >>>>> >>>>> Those that disagree don't do enough PHP support to know how often it is >>>>> asked. it's worth it. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> Is it that hard to at least review the mailing list archives before ranting? >>>> >>>> At least posters would sound like they have educated themselves on why what >>>> came to be, and argue sensibly for changes. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> obviously the old arguments didn't work, time to start anew. >>> >>> >> using a name like "admin" in your email headers isn't going to be very >> receptive. >> >> For what its worth its Hebrew for double colon. I'm all for the change, will see what >> I can do next week. >> >> - S >> >> > Oops, sorry didn't even notice it was there, I don't send mail from this > account much. > > Should be fixed. Though I don't care what my name has to do with reception. > > What is in a name anyway? > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >