сб, 25 окт. 2025 г. в 01:18, Morgan <[email protected]>: > On 2025-10-25 08:34, Jason Marble wrote: > > Hello everybody! > > > > > > The potential for a `SORT_NATURAL` flag also came to mind as another > > useful addition, but I believe `SORT_STRICT` is the more critical > > feature to discuss first. > > > > I know I find array_unique generally useless due to its insistence on > stringifying everything for comparison. > > ``` > $uniques = []; > foreach($source_array as $a) { > if(!in_array($a, $uniques, true)) { > $uniques[] = $a; > } > } > ``` > > I seem to recall part of the issue is that array_unique works by sorting > its elements so that "equal" values are adjacent. I know this would be > done on O(n log(n)) vs. O(n^2) grounds, but that could be addressed at > least in part by a smarter sort criterion that sorts by type/class (in > some arbitrary order) before sorting by value. For uncomparable types > (i.e., instances of most classes) this would be by object ID, because we > don't _actually_ care about ordering. >
I would rather propose smth like usort: `array_uunique(array<T>, callable(T, T): -1|0|1): array<T>`. -- Valentin
