What on earth is T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM?
  • MikhaelMikhael
    Posts: 93
    I got this error while developing a plugin (Chrome 7.0 Dev, Vanilla 2.0.3);

    Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM. Whut?!

    Edit: Aha. Should have done a Google search for this first...
  • ToddTodd
    Posts: 1,436
    php seems to give a lot of errors like this. You just have to go to the file in gives and have a look for missing syntax.

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  • MikhaelMikhael
    Posts: 93
    Yep. Seems it's Hebrew, left in since early php development. Shalom!
  • MikhaelMikhael
    Posts: 93
    Ha, cool thing (well, I think so). There are Hebrew translation functions in PHP since much of it was developed by those of a dark hat and curly hair persuasion (oops; bit of a stereotype there!) Hebrew speakers. Things like this, as well as multi-language sites and posts, keep us on our toes. Makes me wonder where we'll be in a hundred years. (Well, we'll be long gone, but you get the idea..!)
  • TimTim
    Posts: 1,547
    Incidentally, the wikipedia article you linked says:
    Wikipedia said:

    In PHP, the scope resolution operator is also called Paamayim Nekudotayim (Hebrew: פעמיים נקודתיים‎, pronounced [paʔaˈmajim nəkudoˈtajim]), which means "twice colon" or "double colon" in Hebrew.

    In actual fact, "PAAMAYIM NEKUDOTAYIM" means "twice, two dots". Two dots (:), twice (::). I found that cool :>

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  • MikhaelMikhael
    Posts: 93
    Yeah, a lot of languages are very literal, and quite fascinating.
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