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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Feature request and RFC
From: thomas@gielfeldt.dk (Thomas Gielfeldt)

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2015-02-24 20:49 GMT+01:00 Stanislav Malyshev <smalyshev@gmail.com>:

> 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.
>
> One of the goals of this, is to make at it possible to use the Xsort()
functions on objects. I agree, implementing 11 methods might be
sub-optimal. We could reduce it to 2 methods, and then provide flags for
the variations.

--
> Stas Malyshev
> smalyshev@gmail.com
>

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