Re: RE: [SPAM] Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 10:58:36AM +0100, Dennis Haarbrink wrote: > Come on people, what exactly is the problem with a once-in-a-lifetime investment of 5 seconds > of your time to google some stupid error message. Something you, as a developer, spend your life > doing. > > Please, stop complaining about a minor (yes, it is minor, use the fricking search engine!) > annoyance and accept php's heritage. > > And please understand, I do get where all the opponents are coming from, it is an unnecessary > complicated error message (I agree that the language argument is a moot point, in the world of > internet and programming in particular, English is the standard), but you google it once in your > life and then you 'forget' about it. And if you can't remember the meaning of > something like that, I hardly doubt you'd be a decent programmer anyway. Its a minor change and an annoyance to a lot of people. Yes, by not changing this you'r annoying thousands of people. This isn't an easteregg either. This is a "lesson" as someone explained. eastereggs aren't visible to normal users. If you want teach people about Hebrew you obviously can do so. I don't see how that is the goal of a programming language, but that is an other issue. But don't come along and insult us with this bullshit.