Major In numerous cases one might want to just know, or also know, the count of the number of entities in a collection identified by a navigation property as opposed to retrieving the whole set. We allow already for $count to be appended to a resource path identifying a set. As of V4 we can now also nest the $inlinecount query option in the $expand to retrieve the count for that set after, also new, optionally applying a filter to that set. I can see cases were you would only want to retrieve the count without actually expanding such a navigation property. So I was wondering if we could allow the use of $count in a select to express the fact that the odata.count annotation for such navigation property ought to be included in the response and at the same time, while expanding, wouldn't want to use $count instead of $inlinecount in the expansion as well, thereby getting rid of the requirement for a special $inlinecount altogether.