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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [Discussion] Deprecate function sizeof()
From: kalle@php.net (Kalle Sommer Nielsen)

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