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 there are a lot of other languages in the world.  People
> > > whose first language is not English, myself included, are forced to work
> > > with unfamiliar terms every day.  I wouldn't mind having a few more       
> > >                                          
> > > non-English identifiers in PHP actually.                                  
> > >                                         
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> > >                                        
> > > Well, and a third reason, I like it.            
> > 
> > There is some reason this policy will change after i write this new 
> > tokenizer?
> 
> 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 '::' ..."

But the lesson Rasmus was telling us about would go away. Yet, this is one of
the reasons the token is being kept. I am confused. Are you telling me this is
a lesson for the programmers to be learned? Not for the users?

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