paamayim nekudotayim

English edit

Etymology edit

From 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 edit

paamayim nekudotayim

  1. (programming) The scope resolution operator :: in the PHP programming language.