Whenenever I'm discussing PHP with colleagues I don't know how to describe the little arrow symbol '->' used for accessing properties and methods in PHP. Does it have a name? Is it called arrow?
I mostly call it object access operator.
EDIT: Actually, come to think of it; I usually pronounce it as "dot", since most of us here are more familiar with the dot-notation for accessing objects properties. Since it's clearly not a dot, that's probably not the answer you were looking for.
Chaining operator, read here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_chaining
It's called the Arrow Operator
Although it seems to be called the Arrow Operator, I can’t find reference to it other than this page on the php.net web site. Granted, I didn’t search all that long.
This article outlines this.
It's called the object operator (T_OBJECT_OPERATOR).
Details here: Where do we use the object operator "->" in PHP?
True; it's called the arrow operator: