You can pry T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM from my cold dead fingers!

On 4/27/10, mathieu.suen <mathieu.s...@easyflirt.com> wrote:
> OMG More than 100 token
> I am pretty sure that more than 50% are syntactic sugar.
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> Davey Shafik wrote:
>> From the manual:
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>> T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM       ::      ::. Also defined as T_DOUBLE_COLON.
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>> http://php.net/manual/en/tokens.php
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>> T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM is hardly un-google-able.
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>> - Davey
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>> On Apr 27, 2010, at 2:50 AM, mathieu.suen wrote:
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>>> Hannes Magnusson wrote:
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>>>> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 16:32, mathieu.suen <mathieu.s...@easyflirt.com>
>>>> wrote:
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>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am wondering why is the token name so incomprehensible ?
>>>>> Like T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM...
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> "Paamayim Nekudotayim would, at first, seem like a strange choice for
>>>> naming a double-colon. However, while writing the Zend Engine 0.5
>>>> (which powers PHP 3), that's what the Zend team decided to call it. It
>>>> actually does mean double-colon - in Hebrew!"
>>>>
>>>> http://php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.paamayim-nekudotayim.php
>>>>
>>>> -Hannes
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>>> Then T_DOUBLE_COLON would have been perfectly clear.
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>>> -- Mathieu Suen
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> -- Mathieu Suen
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