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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] re: removing an item from an array
From: morrison.levi@gmail.com (Levi Morrison)

> You are basically asking to alias array_filter with "array_delete". That is
> a very slippery slope. I think array_filter is a very obvious choice
> to remove something from an array. The "filter" function/method is common
> in functional languages (and functional frameworks like Underscore).

This about sums up my opinion on deleting things by value on a PHP array.