On 08/17/2012 05:21 PM, Rasmus Schultz wrote:
>>
>> if(($key = array_search($del_val, $messages)) !== false) {
>> unset($messages[$key]);
>> }
>>
>> Nothing horrible here.
>>
>
> I disagree - this is (or should be) a simple, atomic operation...
> yet, you've got a function-call, an intermediary variable, a boolean test,
> and an unset statement repeating the name of the array you're deleting from.
>
> This should be a simple statement or function/method-call, and in most
> other languages it would be...
Really? I can't think of a single language that has a call to remove an
element by value in a key-value hash. Do you have some examples? What do
you do with duplicates?
-Rasmus
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