Control abstraction

Intent

Replace loops with named function

Motivation

find the best value in an array

Implementation

A simple loop over the array, keeping track of the best element value and index

Examples

function find_best($better, $coll) {
  foreach($coll as $key=>$value) {
    if( is_null($best) || $better($value,$best[1]) ) {
      $best = array($key, $value);
    }
  }
  return $best;
}