Re: rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

On 11/1/10 1:47 PM, Felipe Pena wrote: > 2010/11/1 Richard Lynch <ceo@l-i-e.com> > >> On Fri, October 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. >> >> -1 >> >> > Instead of renaming the token, I prefer to associate a literal string to > each token, to have a legible error message, without the T_ being shown. > > For example, we could use in the Bison grammar file: > %token T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM "::" > > So that the error message become: > > $ sapi/cli/php -r '::' > Parse error: syntax error, unexpected :: in Command line code on line 1 > > Instead of the known "unexpected T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM" one. Years and years ago that was the intent. I didn't think there was a clean way to do that in yacc though. -Rasmus