Re: RFC proposal for adding SORT_STRICT flag to array_unique()

On Sat, Oct 25, 2025, at 13:05, Morgan wrote: > On 2025-10-25 21:23, Rob Landers wrote: > > > > Other than the bytes in memory and how they’re laid out, I fail to see > > how 100 is different from 100. They’re conceptually identical, and > > array_* functions generally behave by **value**, not by **identity**. > > > > In the case of objects, "value" and "identity" are the same thing; > without a __toString() method that always produces different strings for > different objects, array_unique() can't be used to deduplicate an array > of objects - which I find myself wanting to do on a fairly regular basis. > > ``` > $uniques = array_values(array_combine(array_map(spl_object_id(...), > $source_array), $source_array)); > ``` > Object identity and value are different things... https://3v4l.org/uZTsN That’s literally the entire point of my original Records RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/records — and a userland implementation here: https://github.com/withinboredom/records along with a few nice-to-haves https://github.com/withinboredom/common-records — Rob