[PHP-DOC] cvs: phpdoc /en/language/oop5 paamayim-nekudotayim.xml

[Philip Olson]

philip          Fri Aug 27 11:38:23 2004 EDT

  Modified files:              
    /phpdoc/en/language/oop5    paamayim-nekudotayim.xml 
  Log:
  Rewording/grammar, added :: to the title, and a typo fix.
  
  
http://cvs.php.net/diff.php/phpdoc/en/language/oop5/paamayim-nekudotayim.xml?r1=1.5&r2=1.6&ty=u
Index: phpdoc/en/language/oop5/paamayim-nekudotayim.xml
diff -u phpdoc/en/language/oop5/paamayim-nekudotayim.xml:1.5 
phpdoc/en/language/oop5/paamayim-nekudotayim.xml:1.6
--- phpdoc/en/language/oop5/paamayim-nekudotayim.xml:1.5        Sun Aug 22 11:24:45 
2004
+++ phpdoc/en/language/oop5/paamayim-nekudotayim.xml    Fri Aug 27 11:38:23 2004
@@ -1,31 +1,30 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.5 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.6 $ -->
  <sect1 id="language.oop5.paamayim-nekudotayim">
-  <title>Scope Resolution Operator</title>
+  <title>Scope Resolution Operator (::)</title>
 
   <para>
    The Scope Resolution Operator (also called Paamayim Nekudotayim) or in
-   simpler terms, the double colon. This token provides a way to access
+   simpler terms, the double colon, is a token that allows access to 
    <link linkend="language.oop5.static">static</link>,
-   <link linkend="language.oop5.constants">constant</link> or overridden members
-   or methods of a class. 
+   <link linkend="language.oop5.constants">constant</link>, and overridden 
+   members or methods of a class. 
   </para>
 
   <para>
-   When referencing these items from outside the class definition, you use
-   name of the class.
+   When referencing these items from outside the class definition, use
+   the name of the 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.
+   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!
   </para>
 
   <example>
-   <title>:: from outside class definition</title>
+   <title>:: from outside the class definition</title>
    <programlisting role="php">
 <![CDATA[
 <?php
@@ -65,11 +64,11 @@
 
   <para>
    When an extending class overrides the parents definition of a method,
-   php will not call the parent's method.  It is up to the extending class
-   to call the parent method or not, this also applies to <link
+   PHP will not call the parent's method. It's up to the extended class
+   on whether or not the parent's method is called. This also applies to <link
    linkend="language.oop5.decon">Constructors and Destructors</link>, <link
-   linkend="language.oop5.overloading">Overloading</link> and <link
-   linkend="language.oop5.magic">Magic</link> method defintions as well.
+   linkend="language.oop5.overloading">Overloading</link>, and <link
+   linkend="language.oop5.magic">Magic</link> method definitions.
   </para>
 
   <example>