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Depending on the size of your list, count() can indeed be very expensive if you do it repeatedly. There’s no need to define it outside of your for though:
And while descriptive variable names are usually a good thing, $i is kind of an exception to that rule. Its usage has become so idiomatic across languages that anyone who sees for ($i = 0; $i < $someNumber; ++$i) instantly understands what its purpose is, especially since it is virtually always used to access an array index (as in the example above).
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Neat explanations!
Depending on the size of your list,
count()can indeed be very expensive if you do it repeatedly. There’s no need to define it outside of yourforthough:And while descriptive variable names are usually a good thing,
$iis kind of an exception to that rule. Its usage has become so idiomatic across languages that anyone who seesfor ($i = 0; $i < $someNumber; ++$i)instantly understands what its purpose is, especially since it is virtually always used to access an array index (as in the example above).