Purrfect Drupal Coding Guideline Helper: Completely randomise your array and object usage.

coding_guideline_helper.php

<?php

/**
 * Usage
 * $inconsistent_view_thingy = views_get_view("some_view_name");
 * $more_inconsistent_view_thingy = rand_obj_or_array($inconsistent_view_thingy);
 */

function rand_obj_or_array($thing) {
  $det = rand(0,2);

  switch ($det) {
    case 0: # Leave as is
      return $thing;
    case 1: # Turn into a stdclass object.
      foreach($thing as $key => $value) {
        $other_thing->$key = $value;
      }
      return $other_thing;
    case 2: # Turn into an array.
      return (array) $thing;
    case 3: # Turn into an array with drupalish '#keys'.
      $other_thing = array(); 
      $thing = (array) $thing;
      foreach($thing as $key => $value) {
        $other_thing["#{$key}"] = $value;
      }
      return $other_thing;
  }
}