Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:62294 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 56471 invoked from network); 20 Aug 2012 17:13:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 20 Aug 2012 17:13:43 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=ajf@ajf.me; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=ajf@ajf.me; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain ajf.me designates 64.22.89.133 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: ajf@ajf.me X-Host-Fingerprint: 64.22.89.133 oxmail.registrar-servers.com Received: from [64.22.89.133] ([64.22.89.133:54673] helo=oxmail.registrar-servers.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 80/51-07742-64072305 for ; Mon, 20 Aug 2012 13:13:43 -0400 Received: from [192.168.0.200] (5ad3285b.bb.sky.com [90.211.40.91]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by oxmail.registrar-servers.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3DC5C758043; Mon, 20 Aug 2012 13:13:38 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <50327026.2010407@ajf.me> Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 18:13:10 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120714 Thunderbird/14.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Levi Morrison CC: Herman Radtke , Yasuo Ohgaki , Etienne Kneuss , Rasmus Lerdorf , Rasmus Schultz , internals@lists.php.net References: <502EB667.1020602@lerdorf.com> <50326D11.4090101@ajf.me> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] re: removing an item from an array From: ajf@ajf.me (Andrew Faulds) On 20/08/12 18:11, Levi Morrison wrote: >> Adding array_delete would allow you to use it like a set more > It's not a set and wasn't meant to be. If you want really bad set > behavior, feel free to use an array as one. Arrays also aren't lists or associative arrays, strictly speaking. And there is another use case: removing of list items by value, instead of key. -- Andrew Faulds http://ajf.me/