From: Dave Howell <groups@...>
Date: 2006-02-05T06:49:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Quiz #65, Principle of Great Surprise, and Array.delete sledgehammer


On Feb 4, 2006, at 13:09, James Edward Gray II wrote:

> On Feb 4, 2006, at 2:50 PM, Dave Howell wrote:
>
>> Can somebody explain to me how I'm supposed to delete a *single* 
>> element from an array based on equivalence with an object? and get 
>> back said array with said element deleted?
>
> I was just wanting this method yesterday, and not for the first time.  
> Is there any good reason we can't have a delete_first() method for 
> Array?

Wouldn't delete_first still ought to return "_obj_ or nil"?