Shachar Shemesh wrote: > I'm trying to figure out why my wordpress plugin won't work on PHP4, and > I'm getting this strange error: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/sources/wordpress$ ./test.php > > X-Powered-By: PHP/4.4.2-1.1 > Content-type: text/html > > <br /> > <b>Parse error</b>: syntax error, unexpected T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM in > <b>/home/sun/sources/wordpress/test.php</b> on line <b>7</b><br /> > > Ok, I found the explanation, and it has nothing to do with locale.
The error, in plain English, is this. The first word (unexpected) translates to: "While running the syntactic parser I found a token identified by the lexical analyzer in an unexpected location" The second word is the name of the token: T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM. It seems that an Israeli PHP programmer (probably working for Zend) didn't know how to say "double colon" in English, so he coded the token's name in transliterated Hebrew (Zend/zend_language_scanner.l, line 911 on my Debian PHP4 sources). He probably figured that the end user will never see this anyway, and the other programmers, well, they are either Zend employees too, or they can follow the symbol definition and find out what it means. Now I'm wondering whether to submit a patch? In any case, google knows of many people preplexed by this question, most of them actually receiving an answer. I've submitted a note to the relevant page on the PHP manual. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting ltd. Have you backed up today's work? http://www.lingnu.com/backup.html ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
