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Excerpt from [the DustJS tutorial](https://github.com/linkedin/dustjs/wiki/Dust-Tutorial#size_keyxxx___size_helper_Available_in_Dust_V11_release):
Array - number of elements, [1,2,3,4] has size=4
String - length of the string, "abcdef" has size=6
Object - Number of properties in the object, {a:4, b:8, c:15, d:16} has size=4
Number - Value of the number, 23 has size 23 and 3.14 has size 3.14
Undefined, 0, empty string - zero
Any other value - length after conversion to string
This appears to be inaccurate (probably out of date because that tutorial was deprecated in favor of [dustjs.com](https://www.dustjs.com/), but the latter is incomplete and lacking any reference to the `@size` helper.
Corrections
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- Booleans are 0, not converted to strings
Oddities
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Reference parameters (like `foo="{bar}"`) are usually treated as strings but it seems if it contains ONLY a reference to a value and not anything else, then it is still treated as a number.