What's the meaning of the PHP Token Name T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM

Question

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

Thanks!

Answer 1

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!

Answer 2

It's the scope resolution operator.

Answer 3

פעמיים נקודתיים ;)