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From Dimitri Fontaine
Subject Re: [PATCH] Exorcise "zero-dimensional" arrays
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In response to Re: [PATCH] Exorcise "zero-dimensional" arrays (Was: Re: Should array_length() Return NULL)  (Brendan Jurd <direvus@gmail.com>)
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Brendan Jurd <direvus@gmail.com> writes:
> Well for what it's worth I would expect cardinality() to return the
> total number of elements in the array (per ArrayGetNItems).  It's
> consistent with the spec's identification of an array as a
> "collection".  You can chunk the elements into dimensions however you
> want, but it's still a collection of elements, and the cardinality is
> still the number of elements.

+1

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Dimitri Fontaine
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