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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Countable Type Hint
From: smalyshev@gmail.com (Stanislav Malyshev)

Hi!

> Does anybody have any thoughts on this?
> Should I bring *countable* to RFC?
> Should I bring *arraylike* to RFC?

Nothing prevents one from having such interfaces or classes or traits if
they need it. I don't see any need of adding more special cases into the
language. Special cases are always bad design and we shouldn't make it
worse.
-- 
Stas Malyshev
smalyshev@gmail.com