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Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2018 22:44:26 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [RFC][Vote] iterable_to_array() and iterable_count()
From: php.net@majkl578.cz (Michael Moravec)

2018-07-05 16:43 GMT+02:00 Jordi Boggiano <j.boggiano@seld.be>:

> Just to explain the No vote for iterable_count, I think we'd rather advocate
> people implement Countable in their iterables than to force the consumption
> of an iterator just to count it as this can have side-effects and render the
> iterator unusable. If Countable is implemented then count() will do the job
> and all is well. If consuming the iterator is desired then one still can do
> count(iterable_to_array($iter)) fairly easily.

Hi,
I absolutely agree. I initially started writing the RFC without
iterable_count(),
but later I decided to include it for completeness, so that both iterator_*()
functions have a proposed alternative.
Of course, and for the reasons mentioned I made a vote for each of
them separately.

M.