well, thank you for adding that :P
- tul Aidan Lister wrote:
aidan Sat Jul 17 07:21:24 2004 EDT
Modified files: /phpdoc/en/language/oop5 paamayim-nekudotayim.xml Log:
Added a paragraph explaining the origin
http://cvs.php.net/diff.php/phpdoc/en/language/oop5/paamayim-nekudotayim.xml?r1=1.2&r2=1.3&ty=u
Index: phpdoc/en/language/oop5/paamayim-nekudotayim.xml
diff -u phpdoc/en/language/oop5/paamayim-nekudotayim.xml:1.2 phpdoc/en/language/oop5/paamayim-nekudotayim.xml:1.3
--- phpdoc/en/language/oop5/paamayim-nekudotayim.xml:1.2 Sat Jul 17 00:51:27 2004
+++ phpdoc/en/language/oop5/paamayim-nekudotayim.xml Sat Jul 17 07:21:24 2004
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.2 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.3 $ -->
<sect1 id="language.oop5.paamayim-nekudotayim">
<title>::</title>
@@ -9,6 +9,14 @@
linkend="language.oop5.static">static</link>, <link
linkend="language.oop5.constants">constant</link> or overridden members
or methods of a class. + </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Paamayim Nekudotayim would, at first, seem a strange choice for a
+ double-colon. However, at the time of writing of Zend Engine 0.5
+ (which powered PHP3), that is what Andi and Zeev decided to call it.
+ It actually does mean double-colon - in Hebrew! As PHP has progressed
+ with its development it has just never changed.
</para>
<para>
