Re: RE: [SPAM] Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON
| From: | James Butler | Date: | Mon, 01 Nov 2010 12:04:33 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: RE: [SPAM] Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON | ||
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+1
This solves lots of other problems we have and will have in the future.
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James Butler
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On 1 Nov 2010, at 12:00, "Stefan Marr" <php@stefan-marr.de> wrote:
>
> On 01 Nov 2010, at 12:06, Alexander Schrijver wrote:
>> Its a minor change and an annoyance to a lot of people. Yes, by not changing
>> this you'r annoying thousands of people.
> Instead of going for this cosmetic nonsense you should help those people on the lemon branch.
> I am insulted every time I have to read a parser token name in an error message, instead of a
> sensible error message.
> The cost of understanding T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM as part of the current mumbo-jumbo is
> completely insignificant compared to the cost of actually understanding the error message just
> indicating what the parser would have expected.
>
> Changing to lemon is the only way to actually achieve something in the long run...
>
> Best regards
> Stefan
>
>
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