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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Counting of non-countable objects
From: leight@gmail.com (Leigh)

On 11 October 2016 at 10:49, Craig Duncan <php@duncanc.co.uk> wrote:
> I've updated the RFC now to take the deprecation route, and included
> counting scalars:
>
> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/counting_non_countables
>
> The only remaining issue is what to do about handling *count(null)*
> I think this should be deprecated too, but as it's the only case that
> returns zero I wasn't sure whether other folk felt differently?

I'd agree that count(null) has no real benefit, and is probably an error.