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To: Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [Discussion] Deprecate function sizeof()
From: reeze@php.net (reeze)

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On 9 March 2015 at 06:44, Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 2:51 AM, reeze <reeze@php.net> wrote:
> > 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?
>
> As I tend to like the idea to cleanup things, adding warning and
> deprecation warnings for the sake of it is not too appealing to me.
> Especially for this kind of things.
>

Yes it will not really fix the confusion, and it is a small problem,
I know few decent projects use sizeof, we could make the old code involve
and more consist.

sizeof() was kept because of BC since PHP4.0, count() should be the
recommended function.


>
> Cheers,
> --
> Pierre
>
> @pierrejoye | http://www.libgd.org
>



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