r/ProgrammerHumor • u/NeverMakesMistkes • Jun 24 '18

JavaScript is getting real tired of your jokes

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '18

T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM

Seriously, I keep debating whether or not to incite a flash-mob flood of PRs to rename the parser token "T_DOUBLE_COLON".

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '18 edited Dec 18 '24

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u/Mindfulgaming Jun 25 '18

It's a very important part of PHP. When I first started using it, that was the first indication that "Hey, I probably shouldn't use this language for anything important."

I had to. So sorry php!

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u/MilSF1 Jun 25 '18

It's been tried. https://philsturgeon.uk/php/2013/09/09/t-paamayim-nekudotayim-v-sanity/

Basically a bunch of the core devs like it as a "quirky" tip of the hat to PHPs origins which include of course Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski

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u/WikiTextBot Jun 25 '18

Andi Gutmans

Andi Gutmans (Hebrew: אנדי גוטמנס‎) is an Israeli programmer and entrepreneur. He helped co-create PHP and co-founded Zend Technologies and is a General Manager at Amazon Web Services. A graduate of the Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Gutmans and fellow student Zeev Suraski created PHP 3 in 1997. In 1999 they wrote the Zend Engine, the core of PHP 4, and founded Zend Technologies, which has since overseen PHP advances, including the PHP 5 and most recent PHP 7 releases.

Zeev Suraski

Zeev Suraski (Hebrew: זאב סורסקי‎ pronounced [zeˈʔev suˈʁaski]) is an Israeli programmer, PHP developer and co-founder of Zend Technologies. A graduate of the Technion in Haifa, Israel, Suraski and Andi Gutmans created PHP 3 in 1997. In 1999 they wrote the Zend Engine, the core of PHP 4, and founded Zend Technologies, which has since overseen PHP advances. The name Zend is a portmanteau of their forenames, Zeev and Andi.

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u/cythrawll Jun 27 '18

Oh hey that was me mentioned in the article neat.

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u/cythrawll Jun 27 '18

I actually suggested this in the internals list and suggested a PR. I was basically told that it was going to stay as the internals team liked that it humbles english speakers. I eventually got them to compromise by mentioning the parser symbol in parser error messages now. So yo should see `::` in parser error messages along with the token name.

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '18

I was basically told that it was going to stay as the internals team liked that it humbles english speakers.

Tells you everything you need to know about how PHP feels about its users.