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 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 > >>> asked. it's worth it. > >> > >> -1 > >> > >> > > Instead of renaming the token, I prefer to associate a literal string to > > each token, to have a legible error message, without the T_ being shown. > > > > For example, we could use in the Bison grammar file: > > %token T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM "::" > > > > So that the error message become: > > > > $ sapi/cli/php -r '::' > > Parse error: syntax error, unexpected :: in Command line code on line 1 > > > > Instead of the known "unexpected T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM" one. > > Years and years ago that was the intent. I didn't think there was a > clean way to do that in yacc though. > > ... so when will we start replacing the tokens with literals? Tyrael
