In some languages, notably those influenced by Modula-3 (including Python and Go), modules are objects, and scope resolution within modules is a special case of usual object member access, so the usual method operator .
Other languages, notably C++ and Ruby, feature both scope resolution and method access, which interact in various ways; see examples below.
In PHP, the scope resolution operator is also called Paamayim Nekudotayim (Hebrew: פעמיים נקודותיים, pronounced [paʔaˈmajim nekudoˈtajim], the second word a colloquial corruption of נקודתיים, pronounced [nekudaˈtajim]), which means “double colon” in Hebrew.
The name "Paamayim Nekudotayim" was introduced in the Israeli-developed[1] Zend Engine 0.5 used in PHP 3.
Initially the error message simply used the internal token name for the ::, T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM causing confusion for non-Hebrew speakers.