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Bug #65456 Incomprehensible error message while producing a syntax error
Submitted: 2013-08-15 15:43 UTC Modified: 2013-08-15 17:43 UTC
From: ultimateeffect at hotmail dot com Assigned:
Status: Wont fix Package: *General Issues
PHP Version: 5.4.17 OS: Ubuntu 13.04
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2013-08-15 15:43 UTC] ultimateeffect at hotmail dot com 
Description:
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T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM - No one has addressed this yet even though this has been 
laughed at by rails developers for some time already so I am creating a ticket.

Thank you.

http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/

Test script:
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<?php
::

Expected result:
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Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '::' (T_DOUBLE_COLON) in ...

Actual result:
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Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '::' (T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM) in ...

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 [2013-08-15 17:43 UTC] aharvey@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Wont fix
 [2013-08-15 17:43 UTC] aharvey@php.net 
Recent versions of PHP include the actual ::, as your error message includes, so 
it should be clear where the error is (and say what you will, but 
T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM is _very_ easy to Google). Every language needs a little 
quirkiness.

More seriously, this has previously been discussed on Internals, and the 
consensus was no change: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.php.devel/62911

Marking Won't Fix. I suggest you find friendlier Rails developers.
 
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