> On 5 Jul 2017, at 19:09, Lauri Kenttä <lauri.ken...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2017-07-05 18:24, Rowan Collins wrote:
>>> On 5 July 2017 13:28:29 BST, "Johannes Schlüter" <johan...@schlueters.de>
>>> wrote:
>>>> On Mi, 2017-07-05 at 11:24 +0100, Rowan Collins wrote:
>>>> Firstly, I'm not sure where you got the names you've put in
>>>> ALL_CAPS from, but they're not the official names of the operators
>>>> anywhere I've seen. The double-colon is technically the "Scope
>>>> Resolution Operator", or internally T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM (which
>>>> does mean double-colon). It's described in the manual here: http://p
>>>> hp.net/manual/en/language.oop5.paamayim-nekudotayim.php
>>> We use T_DOUBLE_COLON in reflection:
>>> ext/tokenizer/tokenizer_data.c: REGISTER_LONG_CONSTANT("T_DOUBLE
>>> _COLON", T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM, CONST_CS | CONST_PERSISTENT);
>>> ext/tokenizer/tokenizer_data.c: case
>>> T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM: return "T_DOUBLE_COLON";
>>> and I believe it appears/appeared in other places, too.
>> Ah, OK, I stand corrected.
>> Regards,
>
> I'm just wondering if T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM could finally be changed to
> T_DOUBLE_COLON in, say, PHP 8?
I for one would love not repeating that discussion once over... I realize some
people aren't fond of this token, but it's at the level of harmlessness - and
at least to some a part of the PHP folklore - that we should find better things
to do than take another stab at removing it.
Zeev
