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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [Discussion] Deprecate function sizeof()
From: kalle@php.net (Kalle Sommer Nielsen)

Hi

2015-03-07 16:51 GMT+01:00 reeze <reeze@php.net>:
> Hi internals,
>
> I'd like to deprecate function: sizeof() [1][2], which is an alias of
> count(). some people
> expect it return the memory size of the variable.
>
> The doc page's[1] user contributed notes indicate that too.
>
> What do you think?

'm a big -1 on this, while I know it returns the memory size in a C
perspective, I think it makes perfect sense to remain an alias, it
would break lots of applications for a very tiny to nothing gain.



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Kalle Sommer Nielsen
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