Re: PHP unexpectedly speaking Hebrew on me - explanation found
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. = 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]
Re: PHP unexpectedly speaking Hebrew on me - explanation found
Shachar Shemesh wrote: It seems that an Israeli PHP programmer (probably working for Zend) didn't know how to say "double colon" in English It is an in-joke, probably made by Zeev Suraski or one of the other Israelis working on PHP3 (long before Zend was formed). No need to rush with a patch. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paamayim_Nekudotayim = 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]
Re: PHP unexpectedly speaking Hebrew on me - explanation found
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 > > > Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM in > /home/sun/sources/wordpress/test.php on line 7 > > 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]
