ergophobe - 6:56 am on Feb 12, 2010 (gmt 0)

>>count has to be recalculated on every loop.

A classic one! I also quit doing after the first time I saw my xDebug output. It's shocking how often you'll see that and worse in the examples in programming books.

On the flip side, back then, all kinds of people were talking about single quotes being more efficient than double quotes and when I benchmarked that [webmasterworld.com] I realized that the differences are mostly miniscule.