Parse error: parse error, unexpected ‘[', expecting T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM in _____ on line 30

What a strange PHP error message indeed! I did some googling... er, that is, I searched the web using Google -- in case there are any Google lawyers reading ;-) ... and I found the following:

Turns out it’s Hebrew for '::'. You learn something new every day.

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On the line number to which the error message referred, I was referencing a PHP variable without a dollar sign. Oops.

I don’t know what “paamayim nekudotayim” or two colons has to do with it though. (Shrug.)