Re: [RFC] Counting of non-countable objects
| From: | Craig Duncan | Date: | Tue, 04 Oct 2016 17:26:26 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [RFC] Counting of non-countable objects | ||
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On 4 October 2016 at 18:10, Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> A confounding factor is that count() has an alias sizeof() and for people
> coming from a C-like background it is quite natural to try to apply
> sizeof() to a string in order to get its length. This will silently "work",
> but return a meaningless result.
>
> So, definitely +1 on a warning for all non-array non-Countable cases.
>
>
Ok, but if we're saying that count("string") === 1 is no longer a feature
then presumably it makes sense to deprecate in 7.2 and remove in 8.0?
Just raising a warning but still providing the feature feels weird to me