I'd say that this is a bug, and needs to be fixed.
Zeev
At 15:40 26/6/2001, Andre Langhorst wrote:
>Hi,
>apparently php-users are fooled (bug 9633, private email to me) by zends
>sorting on one-element arrays. In fact we do nothing there.
>
> > if (ht->nNumOfElements <= 1) { /* Doesn't require sorting */
> > return SUCCESS;
> > }
>
>but zend_hash_sort is called with renumber=1 for sort() and the like. thus
>any array with size>1 will be renumbered except the one element array,
>that one is returned unchanged. shoudn't have renumbering an effect on
>one-element arrays even if there is nothing to sort?
>
>POV 1)
>One element, nothing to sort. Simply return it.
>Problem: inconsistent behaviour
>
>POV 2)
>Renumber arrays with size>1, renumber all.
>Problem: backwards compatibilty.
>
>well, I am unsure. To not have the BC problem we should at least document
>this, because experience shows that people do expect that sort() acts
>similar on all arrays and renumbers even one-element arrays.
>
>ok. why would you sort a one-element array? I wouldn't, but people
>apparently do and I can understand this kind of inconsistency assuming.
>
>andré
>
>
>
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