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

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