paamayim nekudotayim
English
editEtymology
editFrom Hebrew פעמיים נקודתיים (“double colon”); introduced in the Israeli-developed Zend Engine 0.5 used in PHP 3. The correct word should be nekudatayim, but Israelis commonly say the word with this mistake.
Noun
editpaamayim nekudotayim
- (programming) The scope resolution operator
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in the PHP programming language.