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0, empty string - zero Any other value - length after conversion to string This appears to be inaccurate (probably out of date because that tutorial was deprecated in favor of [dustjs.com](https://www.dustjs.com/), but the latter is incomplete and lacking any reference to the `@size`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 ----------- - Booleans are 0, not converted to strings Oddities -------- 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.