>-----Original Message-----
>From: Davey Shafik [mailto:da...@php.net]
>Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 6:03 AM
>To: mathieu.suen
>Cc: Hannes Magnusson; PHP internals
>Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Obscure token name
>
>
>From the manual:
>
>T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM ::      ::. Also defined as T_DOUBLE_COLON.
>
>http://php.net/manual/en/tokens.php
>
>T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM is hardly un-google-able.

The rest of PHP5 is in English, why do I have to strain my brain or fire up my 
browser to decipher "Unexpected token T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM on line ## in 
<filename>". How many native Hebrew speaking programmers will be put off by 
changing this to T_DOUBLE_COLON?

I guess it could be argued that I would have my browser already running to 
reference the mess of PHP functions anyway. :P

>
>- Davey
>
>On Apr 27, 2010, at 2:50 AM, mathieu.suen wrote:
>
>> Hannes Magnusson wrote:
>>> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 16:32, mathieu.suen
>>> <mathieu.s...@easyflirt.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I am wondering why is the token name so incomprehensible ? Like
>>>> T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM...
>>>>
>>>
>>> "Paamayim Nekudotayim would, at first, seem like a strange
>choice for
>>> naming a double-colon. However, while writing the Zend Engine 0.5
>>> (which powers PHP 3), that's what the Zend team decided to call it.
>>> It actually does mean double-colon - in Hebrew!"
>>>
>>> http://php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.paamayim-nekudotayim.php
>>>
>>> -Hannes
>>>
>>>
>> Then T_DOUBLE_COLON would have been perfectly clear.
>>
>> -- Mathieu Suen
>>
>>
>>
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