Why not to usecount($finder)?

Because that will iterate through every single file that matches. If I only want to know if some exist or not, that's an overly expensive check

I remember a similar proposal that wasn't accepted, because the use case is not common enough.
You can achieve it in justone extra line btw:

foreach ($finderas$thing) {// do things herebreak;}

It may be only one extra line but a lot of the clarity is lost. You see aforeach and you think we're doing something with the results, it's misleading

@duncan3dc, I'm not sure but I think you could try to use theIterator::valid method instead offoreach loop:

if ($finder->getIterator->valid()) {}

@voronkovich Not if the iterator is anIteratorAggregate you can't

I like this feature proposal ... and I recently needed it 😄

However, I don't like the proposedfound() method name, so I checked the method names ofPHP SPL iterators. They don't have a method to check if the iterator has elements, but somewhat related it's thevalid() method (e.g. in ArrayIterator, valid() returns true if the array contains any more entries).

I'd prefer a more descriptive method name:hasResults(),hasItems(),hasEntries(),hasElements(), etc.

I like the proposal too, and it can be useful,hasResults() is quite nice

👍 forhasResults

@symfony/deciders we need to make a decision here. Personally I'm "-0" :)

I'm 👍

Thank you@duncan3dc.