On Sun, 20 Oct 2024, 21:24 Larry Garfield, <la...@garfieldtech.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 20, 2024, at 12:42 PM, Gina P. Banyard wrote: > > Hello internals, > > > > I would like to propose a short RFC to make the return value of the > > sort() and similar functions more useful: > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/array-sort-return-array > > > > I intend for the discussion to last 2 weeks and then open the vote. > > > > Best regards, > > > > Gina P. Banyard > > Like others, I'm skeptical of the behavior here not being all that clear. > > What several other languages do, and what I have in the plan for > collections if/when they ever happen, is sort() sorts in place, while > sorted() returns a new value. There's similarly reverse() (in place) and > reversed() (new value returned). > > *sorted($arr) seems like it would be a lot less confusing, and consistent > with what other languages (and hopefully future PHP) do. (I don't know > what that means for array_walk(), but I don't know what that would even > return anyway.) > > --Larry Garfield > I fail to see the logic of present tense = mutate, past tense = copy. At least there is a pattern to it, but I would have to look it up several times before it sunk in since it is not intuitive at all. Cheers, Bilge >
