[BAILOPAN]

assume that functions can't return strings in SourceMod. the syntax might be technically possible if you figure it out, but support for it is very limited. it's much better to pass in a string buffer as a parameter.

note that publics and natives can never return arrays. returning arrays is limited to stocks and private functions.

[Nican]

PHP, JavaScript and VB are languishes that any variable can be any value....
And they are the easiest languishes I know too :O

[BAILOPAN]

Those are all very different languages with very different paradigms. To understand Pawn's design you need to have a background in C. It is based on raw memory manipulation rather than complex structures such as objects which have lifetimes and reference counts.