Re: [RFC] Change behaviour of array sort functions to return a copy of the sorted array

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