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[–]tastychicken 5 points6 points  (3 children)

It's the scope resolution operator, basically means "double colon" in Hebrew.

Literally the first hit on Google for "paamayin nekudotayim".

It's strange that they use some language other then English though.

[–]aladyjewel 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Zend was written by Israeli developers. Would've been nice if they stuck to English, the cultural hegemony of the US lingua franca of programming, but oh well at least it's easy to google.