Re: [PHP-DEV] [alexander.schrij...@gmail.com: Re: [PHP-DEV] RE: [SPAM] Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON]

2010-11-03 Thread jvlad
Yes, there is a reason: As it was explained before, lemon would not display token names but actual token values. So instead of Unexpected T_PAABLAH it would say Unexpected '::' ... hello, value of some tokens is not what would be expected either. Think a bit about T_STRING for example.

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-11-02 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 9:50 PM, Rasmus Lerdorf ras...@lerdorf.com wrote: On 11/1/10 1:47 PM, Felipe Pena wrote: 2010/11/1 Richard Lynch c...@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

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-11-02 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 9:47 PM, Felipe Pena felipe...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/11/1 Richard Lynch c...@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

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-11-02 Thread André Rømcke
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 9:47 PM, Felipe Pena felipe...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/11/1 Richard Lynch c...@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

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-11-01 Thread Stan Vass
It's amazing to me this has become such a long discussion. The facts are simple: 1) People don't ask for the other parse errors even half as often as they as for T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM 2) They do so because it looks like gibberish to them, so it looks unlikely to be a common thing you can

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

2010-11-01 Thread Dennis Haarbrink
-Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Stan Vass [mailto:sv_for...@fmethod.com] Verzonden: maandag 1 november 2010 10:19 Aan: internals@lists.php.net Onderwerp: [SPAM] Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON Urgentie: Laag It's amazing to me this has become

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

2010-11-01 Thread Arvids Godjuks
Haarbrink den...@born05.nl: -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Stan Vass [mailto:sv_for...@fmethod.com] Verzonden: maandag 1 november 2010 10:19 Aan: internals@lists.php.net Onderwerp: [SPAM] Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON Urgentie: Laag It's amazing to me this has

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-11-01 Thread Richard Quadling
On 30 October 2010 01:47, admin ad...@codeangel.org 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

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

2010-11-01 Thread Alexander Schrijver
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

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

2010-11-01 Thread Stefan Marr
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

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

2010-11-01 Thread James Butler
+1 This solves lots of other problems we have and will have in the future. -- James Butler Sent from my iPhone On 1 Nov 2010, at 12:00, Stefan Marr p...@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,

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

2010-11-01 Thread Alexander Schrijver
On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 12:59:54PM +0100, Stefan Marr 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

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

2010-11-01 Thread James Butler
-Original Message- From: Alexander Schrijver [mailto:alexander.schrij...@gmail.com] Sent: 01 November 2010 12:19 To: Stefan Marr Cc: Dennis Haarbrink; Stan Vass; internals@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RE: [SPAM] Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

[PHP-DEV] [alexander.schrij...@gmail.com: Re: [PHP-DEV] RE: [SPAM] Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON]

2010-11-01 Thread Alexander Schrijver
] RE: [SPAM] Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 12:23:07PM +, James Butler wrote: -Original Message- From: Alexander Schrijver [mailto:alexander.schrij...@gmail.com] Sent: 01 November 2010 12

Re: [PHP-DEV] [alexander.schrij...@gmail.com: Re: [PHP-DEV] RE: [SPAM] Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON]

2010-11-01 Thread Etienne Kneuss
james.but...@edigitalresearch.com Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RE: [SPAM] Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 12:23:07PM +, James Butler wrote: -Original Message- From: Alexander Schrijver

Re: [PHP-DEV] [alexander.schrij...@gmail.com: Re: [PHP-DEV] RE: [SPAM] Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON]

2010-11-01 Thread Alexander Schrijver
On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 01:36:24PM +0100, Etienne Kneuss wrote: It's the policy: There are two reasons this term will stay. It is a tip of the hat to the amount of PHP work that came out of Israel, and it is a good reminder that

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

2010-11-01 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
: Re: [PHP-DEV] RE: [SPAM] Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 12:59:54PM +0100, Stefan Marr 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

Re: [PHP-DEV] [alexander.schrij...@gmail.com: Re: [PHP-DEV] RE: [SPAM] Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON]

2010-11-01 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Alexander Schrijver alexander.schrij...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 01:36:24PM +0100, Etienne Kneuss wrote: It's the policy: There are two reasons this term will stay. It is a tip of the hat to the amount of PHP work that came out of

Re: [PHP-DEV] [alexander.schrij...@gmail.com: Re: [PHP-DEV] RE: [SPAM] Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON]

2010-11-01 Thread Etienne Kneuss
On Nov 01 13:43:14, Alexander Schrijver wrote: On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 01:36:24PM +0100, Etienne Kneuss wrote: It's the policy: There are two reasons this term will stay. It is a tip of the hat to the amount of PHP work that came out of Israel, and it is a good

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-11-01 Thread Nathan Rixham
Stan Vass wrote: It's amazing to me this has become such a long discussion. The facts are simple: 1) People don't ask for the other parse errors even half as often as they as for T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM 2) They do so because it looks like gibberish to them, so it looks unlikely to be a common

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-11-01 Thread Pierre Joye
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Nathan Rixham nrix...@gmail.com wrote: Makes sense, just alias it and change the error message thus keeping bc. Please just move on. Everything possible has been said already. If we feel like there are critical issues introduced by this error message, then we

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-11-01 Thread Richard Lynch
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

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-11-01 Thread Felipe Pena
2010/11/1 Richard Lynch c...@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

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-11-01 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
On 11/1/10 1:47 PM, Felipe Pena wrote: 2010/11/1 Richard Lynch c...@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

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-10-31 Thread Alexander Schrijver
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 07:50:29PM -0500, Jack Timmons wrote: On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Chad Emrys ad...@codeangel.org wrote: I'm not arguing about learning another culture. The argument is that an error message that should be straight forward, isn't. You misunderstand my point.

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-10-31 Thread Philip Olson
Colon? Be doubly sure to eat a healthy fiber enriched diet with plenty of water! Regards, Philip -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-10-31 Thread Chad Emrys
On 10/30/2010 07:50 PM, Jack Timmons wrote: On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Chad Emrysad...@codeangel.org wrote: I'm not arguing about learning another culture. The argument is that an error message that should be straight forward, isn't. You misunderstand my point. It isn't

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-10-30 Thread Chad Emrys
On 10/29/2010 09:29 PM, James Butler wrote: 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

RE: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-10-30 Thread Andi Gutmans
, a story (and history) to PHP. Don't think we should take this out after a good 12 years. I would prefer this was not changed. Andi -Original Message- From: admin [mailto:ad...@codeangel.org] Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 5:47 PM To: internals php list Subject: [PHP-DEV] rename

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-10-30 Thread Pierre Jaury
As you mention, PHP errors are token names. Users have to read the manual to understand them at first sight. Then, what's the matter in having a bit of fun and nostalgia naming the tokens ? Switching to meanful error messages would make your point though. Pierre. Le samedi 30 octobre 2010 à

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-10-30 Thread Chad Emrys
On 10/30/2010 01:23 AM, Andi Gutmans wrote: The first google entry when you search for it gives you the answer. It is actually unbelievably easy to find the answer via search. If a new PHP developer can't find it then maybe they shouldn't be writing code. This is a piece of history from the

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-10-30 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
On 10/29/10 11:17 PM, Chad Emrys wrote: The fact they have to google to figure out what it means, the error message fails at it's purpose. (Realistically it'll take longer than a second unless you got google hot keyed to your log reader). I Liked Stefan's idea in the previous thread to not

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-10-30 Thread Chad Emrys
On 10/30/2010 01:30 AM, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: On 10/29/10 11:17 PM, Chad Emrys wrote: The fact they have to google to figure out what it means, the error message fails at it's purpose. (Realistically it'll take longer than a second unless you got google hot keyed to your log reader). I

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-10-30 Thread Sebastian Bergmann
On 10/30/2010 11:53 AM, Andi Gutmans wrote: I would prefer this was not changed. +1 (for the same reasons) -- Sebastian BergmannCo-Founder and Principal Consultant http://sebastian-bergmann.de/ http://thePHP.cc/ -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-10-30 Thread Stas Malyshev
Hi! I can see only positives by switching it out. can someone give me a light on how much it would actually cost to do that? Some negatives? I It would probably require bribing all the opponents, so the cost would be in high six digits (in $US) I guess. what I am trying to point out as

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-10-30 Thread Chad Emrys
On 10/30/2010 01:36 AM, Stas Malyshev wrote: Hi! I can see only positives by switching it out. can someone give me a light on how much it would actually cost to do that? Some negatives? I It would probably require bribing all the opponents, so the cost would be in high six digits (in $US)

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-10-30 Thread Mike Van Riel
On 30 okt 2010, at 08:34, Sebastian Bergmann sebast...@php.net wrote: On 10/30/2010 11:53 AM, Andi Gutmans wrote: I would prefer this was not changed. +1 (for the same reasons) I agree with Andi, Rasmus and the other people in favor. This token name is part of the history of PHP and adds

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-10-30 Thread Peter Lind
Den 2010 10 30 03:51 skrev Chad Emrys ad...@codeangel.org: * snip * What is in a name anyway? There's something VERY ironic about a statement like that given what you're asking for ... Regards Peter

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-10-30 Thread Peter Lind
On 30 October 2010 09:09, Mike Van Riel mike.vanr...@naenius.com wrote: * snip * (additionally I wonder why people ask such a simple question on IRC whilst googling provides your answer faster..) Most of the people coming to ##php on freenode asking questions like that have a hard time

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-10-30 Thread Chad Emrys
On 10/30/2010 02:09 AM, Mike Van Riel wrote: On 30 okt 2010, at 08:34, Sebastian Bergmann sebast...@php.net wrote: On 10/30/2010 11:53 AM, Andi Gutmans wrote: I would prefer this was not changed. +1 (for the same reasons) I agree with Andi, Rasmus and the other people in favor. This

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-10-30 Thread Chad Emrys
On 10/30/2010 02:11 AM, Peter Lind wrote: Den 2010 10 30 03:51 skrev Chad Emrys ad...@codeangel.org mailto:ad...@codeangel.org: * snip * What is in a name anyway? There's something VERY ironic about a statement like that given what you're asking for ... Regards Peter It was intentional

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-10-30 Thread Chad Emrys
On 10/30/2010 02:16 AM, Peter Lind wrote: On 30 October 2010 09:09, Mike Van Rielmike.vanr...@naenius.com wrote: * snip * (additionally I wonder why people ask such a simple question on IRC whilst googling provides your answer faster..) Most of the people coming to ##php on

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-10-30 Thread Peter Lind
On 30 October 2010 09:34, Chad Emrys ad...@codeangel.org wrote: On 10/30/2010 02:16 AM, Peter Lind wrote: On 30 October 2010 09:09, Mike Van Rielmike.vanr...@naenius.com  wrote: * snip * (additionally I wonder why people ask such a simple question on IRC whilst googling provides your

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-10-30 Thread Richard Quadling
On 30 October 2010 02:51, Chad Emrys ad...@codeangel.org wrote: What is in a name anyway? Would a T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM by any other name make a difference? -- Richard Quadling Twitter : EE : Zend @RQuadling : e-e.com/M_248814.html : bit.ly/9O8vFY -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-10-30 Thread Jorrit Kronjee
On 10/30/2010 10:01 AM, Richard Quadling wrote: On 30 October 2010 02:51, Chad Emrys ad...@codeangel.org wrote: What is in a name anyway? Would a T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM by any other name make a difference? To provide a counterargument, it certainly would. I don't consider myself an

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-10-30 Thread Mike Van Riel
On 30 okt 2010, at 09:34, Chad Emrys ad...@codeangel.org wrote: On 10/30/2010 02:16 AM, Peter Lind wrote: On 30 October 2010 09:09, Mike Van Rielmike.vanr...@naenius.com wrote: * snip * (additionally I wonder why people ask such a simple question on IRC whilst googling provides your

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-10-30 Thread Daniel Jänecke
On 30.10.2010 08:34, Chad Emrys wrote: Well Rasmus, I wish you would hang out more in ##php on freenode. (I see you there every so often) But we do get that question about that thing a lot. And even some rage, and I have to cool them off with all the reasons you and Andi are giving me

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-10-30 Thread Daniel Brown
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 06:50, Daniel Jänecke jaene...@gmx.li wrote: Well, isn't the problem here more people asking on IRC rather than using a search engine before? Renaming will not solve that. In this case, one might argue that it would. Instead of what's a T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM? you

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-10-30 Thread James Butler
As a further reason, (not that I think that's it needed) When doing anything vaguely specialist, e.g engineering, medicine, sport, you require a precise set of terminology so two or more people can communicate clearly. The result of this is that if you want to play in a domain, you must be

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-10-30 Thread Alexander Schrijver
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 11:30:04PM -0700, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: with unfamiliar terms every day. I wouldn't mind having a few more non-English identifiers in PHP actually. I don't know if i can make suggestions as an outsider. However, i really like the dutch language and it would be really

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-10-30 Thread Chad Emrys
On 10/30/2010 05:50 AM, Daniel Jänecke wrote: On 30.10.2010 08:34, Chad Emrys wrote: Well Rasmus, I wish you would hang out more in ##php on freenode. (I see you there every so often) But we do get that question about that thing a lot. And even some rage, and I have to cool them off with

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-10-30 Thread Chad Emrys
On 10/30/2010 09:55 AM, Daniel Brown wrote: On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 06:50, Daniel Jäneckejaene...@gmx.li wrote: Well, isn't the problem here more people asking on IRC rather than using a search engine before? Renaming will not solve that. In this case, one might argue that it

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-10-30 Thread Chad Emrys
On 10/30/2010 09:55 AM, Daniel Brown wrote: On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 06:50, Daniel Jäneckejaene...@gmx.li wrote: Well, isn't the problem here more people asking on IRC rather than using a search engine before? Renaming will not solve that. In this case, one might argue that it

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-10-30 Thread Chad Emrys
On 10/30/2010 03:46 AM, Mike Van Riel wrote: On 30 okt 2010, at 09:34, Chad Emrys ad...@codeangel.org wrote: On 10/30/2010 02:16 AM, Peter Lind wrote: On 30 October 2010 09:09, Mike Van Rielmike.vanr...@naenius.com wrote: * snip * (additionally I wonder why people ask such a simple

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-10-30 Thread Daniel P. Brown
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 12:35, Chad Emrys ad...@codeangel.org wrote: Most likely not, we don't get tons of questions about other parser errors, unless the person refuses to read the error message to begin with (Those can't be fixed, true.  But this for those people that DO read the messages,

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-10-30 Thread James Butler
If it ain't broken don't fix it. Change for the sake of it is a bad thing. It does things like introduce bugs etc. Q1) is it broken? Q2) if yes exactly what is broken Q3) does the proposes fix solve the root cause? I'm not sure changing the token name is the correct fix to people not knowing

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-10-30 Thread Chad Emrys
On 10/30/2010 11:41 AM, Daniel P. Brown wrote: On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 12:35, Chad Emrysad...@codeangel.org wrote: Most likely not, we don't get tons of questions about other parser errors, unless the person refuses to read the error message to begin with (Those can't be fixed, true. But

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-10-30 Thread Chad Emrys
On 10/30/2010 11:43 AM, James Butler wrote: If it ain't broken don't fix it. Change for the sake of it is a bad thing. It does things like introduce bugs etc. Q1) is it broken? Q2) if yes exactly what is broken Q3) does the proposes fix solve the root cause? I'm not sure changing the token

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-10-30 Thread Daniel P. Brown
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 12:47, Chad Emrys ad...@codeangel.org wrote: It's not that I'm that sure of myself, it's that I believe that my opinion has merit, and I keep seeing the exact same argument over and over again that I believe is not a very good argument (They can just google it thing).  

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-10-30 Thread Chad Emrys
On 10/30/2010 11:58 AM, Daniel P. Brown wrote: On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 12:47, Chad Emrysad...@codeangel.org wrote: It's not that I'm that sure of myself, it's that I believe that my opinion has merit, and I keep seeing the exact same argument over and over again that I believe is not a

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-10-30 Thread Peter Lind
On 30 October 2010 19:18, Chad Emrys ad...@codeangel.org wrote: On 10/30/2010 11:58 AM, Daniel P. Brown wrote: On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 12:47, Chad Emrysad...@codeangel.org  wrote: It's not that I'm that sure of myself, it's that I believe that my opinion has merit, and I keep seeing the

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-10-30 Thread Jack Timmons
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Chad Emrys ad...@codeangel.org wrote:  I just know the bigger culture of those who use PHP, and some of them are quite annoyed by the dismissive nature of the maintainers who are quite at odds to what the majority of the community want or needs. As one of

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-10-30 Thread Mark Skilbeck
On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 12:44:41 -0500 Jack Timmons codeac...@codeacula.com wrote: Also, as one who also answers other's questions (although not IRC, because its my experience most people asking/*answering* questions on there are dbags), FTFY. -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-10-30 Thread James Butler
Are you supporting users who you provide a shared hosting embodiment too, and do you control binary installations on the enviroments? If so then possibly patching source for you installs maybe the easiest and quickest solution. If we knew the nature of your support requirements, then we could

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-10-30 Thread Chad Emrys
On 10/30/2010 01:02 PM, James Butler wrote: Are you supporting users who you provide a shared hosting embodiment too, and do you control binary installations on the enviroments? If so then possibly patching source for you installs maybe the easiest and quickest solution. If we knew the nature

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-10-30 Thread Chad Emrys
On 10/30/2010 12:57 PM, Mark Skilbeck wrote: On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 12:44:41 -0500 Jack Timmonscodeac...@codeacula.com wrote: Also, as one who also answers other's questions (although not IRC, because its my experience most people asking/*answering* questions on there are dbags), FTFY.

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-10-30 Thread Chad Emrys
On 10/30/2010 12:44 PM, Jack Timmons wrote: On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Chad Emrysad...@codeangel.org wrote: I just know the bigger culture of those who use PHP, and some of them are quite annoyed by the dismissive nature of the maintainers who are quite at odds to what the

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-10-30 Thread Chad Emrys
On 10/30/2010 12:44 PM, Peter Lind wrote: On 30 October 2010 19:18, Chad Emrysad...@codeangel.org wrote: On 10/30/2010 11:58 AM, Daniel P. Brown wrote: On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 12:47, Chad Emrysad...@codeangel.orgwrote: It's not that I'm that sure of myself, it's that I

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-10-30 Thread Peter Lind
On 30 October 2010 22:13, Chad Emrys ad...@codeangel.org wrote: *snip* I actually know Etienne, he does spend some of his time fighting the good fight of supporting PHP :p.  Anyway he has said the lemon parser project is going kind of slow as it is proving to be more difficult because some

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-10-30 Thread Chad Emrys
On 10/30/2010 03:21 PM, Peter Lind wrote: On 30 October 2010 22:13, Chad Emrysad...@codeangel.org wrote: *snip* I actually know Etienne, he does spend some of his time fighting the good fight of supporting PHP :p. Anyway he has said the lemon parser project is going kind of slow as it

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-10-30 Thread Chad Emrys
On 10/30/2010 03:21 PM, Peter Lind wrote: On 30 October 2010 22:13, Chad Emrysad...@codeangel.org wrote: *snip* I actually know Etienne, he does spend some of his time fighting the good fight of supporting PHP :p. Anyway he has said the lemon parser project is going kind of slow as it

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-10-30 Thread Etienne Kneuss
On Oct 30 19:44:08, Peter Lind wrote: On 30 October 2010 19:18, Chad Emrys ad...@codeangel.org wrote: On 10/30/2010 11:58 AM, Daniel P. Brown wrote: On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 12:47, Chad Emrysad...@codeangel.org  wrote: It's not that I'm that sure of myself, it's that I believe that my

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-10-30 Thread Chad Emrys
On 10/30/2010 03:32 PM, Etienne Kneuss wrote: lemon would indeed get rid of actual names for such tokens, and would rather display unnexpected ::. The problem with lemon is that it turns out to still be a tad bit slower than yacc, with some complications on the grammar side (the compiler helper

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-10-30 Thread James Butler
From a completely separate stand point. The ability to customise what token names show up as in an error seems like a much better solution -- James Butler Sent from my iPhone On 30 Oct 2010, at 21:41, Chad Emrys ad...@codeangel.org wrote: On 10/30/2010 03:32 PM, Etienne Kneuss wrote: lemon

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-10-30 Thread Jack Timmons
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Chad Emrys ad...@codeangel.org wrote: I'm not arguing about learning another culture. The argument is that an error message that should be straight forward, isn't. You misunderstand my point. It isn't straightforward for -you- because that isn't your native

[PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-10-29 Thread admin
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

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-10-29 Thread Daniel P. Brown
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 20:47, admin ad...@codeangel.org wrote: Those that disagree don't do enough PHP support to know how often it is asked. it's worth it. Someone disagreeing with your request to change something does not correlate to their doing enough PHP support. There are many

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-10-29 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
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

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-10-29 Thread admin
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

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-10-29 Thread Scott MacVicar
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

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-10-29 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 10/29/2010 8:17 PM, admin wrote: obviously the old arguments didn't work, time to start anew. obviously you didn't stop to learn the art of persuasion. -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-10-29 Thread Chad Emrys
On 10/29/2010 08:31 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: On 10/29/2010 8:17 PM, admin wrote: obviously the old arguments didn't work, time to start anew. obviously you didn't stop to learn the art of persuasion. That's just rude, dude. -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-10-29 Thread Chad Emrys
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

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-10-29 Thread James Butler
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

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-10-29 Thread Daniel Brown
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 21:24, Scott MacVicar sc...@macvicar.net wrote: using a name like admin in your email headers isn't going to be very receptive. I was thinking the exact same thing. Glad not to be the only one. ;-P -- /Daniel P. Brown Network Infrastructure Manager