From 9e5c16aea59e72721072b3df18464d8478ea6b2a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Aidan Lister <aidan@php.net>
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 11:21:24 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Added a paragraph explaining the origin

git-svn-id: https://svn.php.net/repository/phpdoc/en/trunk@163502 c90b9560-bf6c-de11-be94-00142212c4b1
---
 language/oop5/paamayim-nekudotayim.xml | 10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/language/oop5/paamayim-nekudotayim.xml b/language/oop5/paamayim-nekudotayim.xml
index 6af8d734a3..0cd41d1175 100644
--- a/language/oop5/paamayim-nekudotayim.xml
+++ b/language/oop5/paamayim-nekudotayim.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.2 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.3 $ -->
  <sect1 id="language.oop5.paamayim-nekudotayim">
   <title>::</title>
 
@@ -11,6 +11,14 @@
    or methods of a class. 
   </para>
 
+  <para>
+   Paamayim Nekudotayim would, at first, seem a strange choice for a
+   double-colon. However, at the time of writing of Zend Engine 0.5
+   (which powered PHP3), that is what Andi and Zeev decided to call it.
+   It actually does mean double-colon - in Hebrew! As PHP has progressed
+   with its development it has just never changed.
+  </para>
+
   <para>
    When referencing these items from outside the class definition, you use
    name of the class.