Encountering T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM is a right of passage in the PHP world. I had to deal with it, so should everyone else. :-P
While it'll be bittersweet to see it go, I definitely think this would be a wise update. On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 12:58 PM Ryan Jentzsch <ryan.jentz...@gmail.com> wrote: > With over 25+ years of software development experience it was In 2016 I was > introduced to the world of PHP development. > One day I came across the most unusual of error messages > "T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM" What the hell is this?!? > That I needed to waste my time to Google this is simply insane. At the time > I thought to myself that PHP deserved some of the hate. Then I came across > this gem: https://phil.tech/2013/t-paamayim-nekudotayim-v-sanity/ > Please for the sake of logic and sanity replace this nonsense with > T_DOUBLE_COLON > > On Wed, Jun 10, 2020, 9:14 AM G. P. B. <george.bany...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Greetings PHP internals, > > > > Kalle Sommer Nielsen and myself are proposing to rename the > > T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM > > token into the already existing T_DOUBLE_COLON alias, > > T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM would then become an alias to T_DOUBLE_COLON. > > > > The RFC is located here: > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/rename-double-colon-token > > > > Although this token is a nod to the valuable contributions made by the > > Isrealie community we believe this token is rather confusing for > newcomers. > > Moreso, as PHP is for many people their first programming language, > > they may not have some of the habits like googling errors when > > they are stuck, which leads to a frustrating experience. > > > > As we believe PHP still has many years of existence we think it is time > > to rename this token. > > > > This is backwards compatible with PHP 7 and 5. > > This RFC does not lay out a plan for deprecating T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM > > and leaves this as a future scope. > > > > As the matter on hand is a relatively straight forward yes/no vote we > > expect > > it to be held after the minimum 2 week discussion period. > > > > Best regards > > > > George Peter Banyard > > > -- Chase Peeler chasepee...@gmail.com
