Re: [Discussion] Deprecate function sizeof()

Hi 2015-03-07 18:35 GMT+01:00 Sebastian B.-Hagensen <sbj.ml.read@gmail.com>: > Hi, > I don't think the alias make sense and is really misleading and I've > seen sizeof("abc"); often enough (Don't get me wrong that's equally > bad with count, but sizeof encourages that usage, imo). > Having two functions that do exactly the same using different names > for no good reason (one of them referring to a different operation in > a more popular language) isn't optimal. Code using a deprecated sizeof > call is trivial to fix. Well we could make count()/sizeof() work for strings, so that if: C:\> php -r "echo sizeof('abc');" 3 although it would not really accomplish much imo., I think it is more of what background you come from that makes the most sense to me, I got into PHP before C and I enjoy sizeof more for array sizes than count, but that is just a pure preference. -- regards, Kalle Sommer Nielsen kalle@php.net