Re: Proposal: table.sort returning the sorted table.

[Axel Kittenberger <axkibe@...>]

> The other is a function which has its return value as its principal output, but changes its input

Thats where you went wrong, who said, just because a function does
return something, it is its "principal output".

I'd rather see this change in standard API than projects clutered with:
do
 local tablesort = table.sort
 function table.sort(t)
   tablesort(t)
   return t
 end
end