I think it's just a bad habit inherited from Javascript, where you can do like this: var a = function(a, b) { }; alert(a.length); // shows 2
I don't think that PHP needs it, explicit method is way better. 2011/8/8 Sebastian Bergmann <sebast...@php.net>: > On 08/08/2011 04:49 AM, Etienne Kneuss wrote: >> >> I don't believe Countable implies ArrayAccess, but I do think that >> Countable should only be implemented in cases where it is obvious what >> it will return, for example collections. >> >> In this case, count(Closure) is really not that explicit, I'd rather >> have an explicit method. > > ACK > > -- > Sebastian Bergmann Co-Founder and Principal Consultant > http://sebastian-bergmann.de/ http://thePHP.cc/ > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Regards, Shein Alexey -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php