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 01:17 -0500, Chad Emrys a écrit :
> 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 means.
> >
> > --
> > James Butler
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > On 30 Oct 2010, at 02:51, "Chad Emrys"<ad...@codeangel.org>  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 put token names in the error 
> messages anymore and replace them with something more meaningful for the 
> user.  However, since that never happened, this is a better/easier 
> alternative for now.  How many total hours of googling will we save 
> developers for a 10 sec grep and replace? (not sure if it's that easy, 
> but for the sake of the argument).
> 
> 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 
> don't see the argument given to be entirely helpful because it's exactly 
> what I am trying to point out as a problem, and the reason why we should 
> change it.
> 

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