This function is EXPERIMENTAL. That means, that the behaviour of this function, the function name, in concreto ANYTHING documented here can change in a future release of this package WITHOUT NOTICE. Be warned, and use this function at your own risk.
You can change the return type of variable - so that it works better with non-PHP applications for example.
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