What's the meaning of the PHP token name T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM? [duplicate]

Answer 1

It's the scope resolution operator.

Answer 2

From the PHP docs:

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!