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,
Well, almost true, but not entirely. The "Israeli programmer" are
actually Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans, who are Israeli and who wrote
the engine for PHP 3 and who later indeed created the Zend company. They
know very well how to say "double colon" in English, but this token name
was a kind of inside joke and it was left there for PHP 4 and 5 and will
be there in PHP 6. This joke, as you imagine, is known to everybody "in
business" and is listed in all online resources like Wikipedia for
years. You can consider it a sort of easter egg (btw, there is at least
one other easter egg in PHP :)
Now I'm wondering whether to submit a patch? In any case, google knows
You might do that, but chances of it being accepted are zero :) Google
and Wikipedia rule, however.
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