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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Feature request and RFC
From: smalyshev@gmail.com (Stanislav Malyshev)

Hi!

> I've made PR proposing a feature request: A new interface Sortable.
> 
> https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/1116
> 
> If possible, I would like to create and RFC describing this in more detail,
> and perhaps get a voting on.

Can't you sort any class that provides ordered list of elements and
Comparable or some kind of comparison callback by a generic algorithm?
Interface with 11 functions, all similar but slightly different, seems
unoptimal.

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Stas Malyshev
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