Can *sort functions return the sorted array ?

I'm not a fan of this. I don't think it's appropriate to just add parameters
to functions all the time just because you don't like the fact that it's
call-by-reference.

Ron

"Fulax" fulax@naedev.naellia.org wrote in message
news:417CF662.9080204@naedev.naellia.org...

Hi,

I wonder if it will be possible to add an extra argument to the *sort
functions to get the sorted array directly.
At the moment I have made my own function to do this, here is an example
with natsort :

function arrnatsort($a_array)
{
if(natsort($a_array))
return $a_array;
else
return false;
}

I think it will more convenient to simply call $array =
natsort($array,true);, when you need to combine functions, like this :
$sSortedString = join(',',arrnatsort(explode(',',$sString)));

At the moment, the way is to create an auxilliary function, or to make
more steps :

$aTemArray = explode(',',$sString);
natsort($aTempArray);
$sSortedString = join(',',$aTempArray);
unset $aTempArray;

Does it make sense to add the possibility for an extra argument ? Like
highlight_string function, the extra argument return the string instead
of displaying it.

Thanks in advance, and sorry for my crapy English

Cyprien