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>