From c62173b9094605f0e9a0d7461676f954b1ba24e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Philip Olson <philip@php.net>
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 15:38:23 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Rewording/grammar, added :: to the title, and a typo fix.

git-svn-id: https://svn.php.net/repository/phpdoc/en/trunk@167398 c90b9560-bf6c-de11-be94-00142212c4b1
---
 language/oop5/paamayim-nekudotayim.xml | 33 +++++++++++++-------------
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/language/oop5/paamayim-nekudotayim.xml b/language/oop5/paamayim-nekudotayim.xml
index 3f456cef67..27915e06b7 100644
--- a/language/oop5/paamayim-nekudotayim.xml
+++ b/language/oop5/paamayim-nekudotayim.xml
@@ -1,31 +1,30 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.5 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.6 $ -->
  <sect1 id="language.oop5.paamayim-nekudotayim">
-  <title>Scope Resolution Operator</title>
+  <title>Scope Resolution Operator (::)</title>
 
   <para>
    The Scope Resolution Operator (also called Paamayim Nekudotayim) or in
-   simpler terms, the double colon. This token provides a way to access
+   simpler terms, the double colon, is a token that allows access to 
    <link linkend="language.oop5.static">static</link>,
-   <link linkend="language.oop5.constants">constant</link> or overridden members
-   or methods of a class. 
+   <link linkend="language.oop5.constants">constant</link>, and overridden 
+   members or methods of a class. 
   </para>
 
   <para>
-   When referencing these items from outside the class definition, you use
-   name of the class.
+   When referencing these items from outside the class definition, use
+   the name of the 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.
+   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!
   </para>
 
   <example>
-   <title>:: from outside class definition</title>
+   <title>:: from outside the class definition</title>
    <programlisting role="php">
 <![CDATA[
 <?php
@@ -65,11 +64,11 @@ OtherClass::doubleColon();
 
   <para>
    When an extending class overrides the parents definition of a method,
-   php will not call the parent's method.  It is up to the extending class
-   to call the parent method or not, this also applies to <link
+   PHP will not call the parent's method. It's up to the extended class
+   on whether or not the parent's method is called. This also applies to <link
    linkend="language.oop5.decon">Constructors and Destructors</link>, <link
-   linkend="language.oop5.overloading">Overloading</link> and <link
-   linkend="language.oop5.magic">Magic</link> method defintions as well.
+   linkend="language.oop5.overloading">Overloading</link>, and <link
+   linkend="language.oop5.magic">Magic</link> method definitions.
   </para>
 
   <example>