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

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What's the story behind the ::'s sometimes token name

T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM

I'm mainly interested in knowing if

1. This is an abbreviation for something else.
2. This is a phrase in a language other than English, and if so what's the language and what's a rough translation.
3. This is some obscure-to-me programming term.
4. Drunk developers.

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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!

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It's the scope resolution operator.