I searched around a bit and haven't found a nickname for it like turbofish for ::<> in Rust or the plethora of names for things in Ruby , like "stabby lambda" ->, "twiddle waka" ~>, "spaceship" <=>, etc. I've heard it called Paamayim Nekudotayim , literally "twice colon", from my days in PHP using it…

Is there a fun name for `::`?

TomP May 30, 2018, 4:12am 15

That's two bad puns in just over a day. The other was “Type inference”? No!

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