Do you have a better way to remove element from a array?

[IchorDev]

On Wednesday, 21 August 2024 at 08:00:04 UTC, aberba wrote:
> On Sunday, 11 August 2024 at 20:57:15 UTC, IchorDev wrote:
>> On Sunday, 11 August 2024 at 06:04:08 UTC, mw wrote:
>>> BTW, for associative array, `remove()` is in-place; but here 
>>> for std.algorithm.mutation.remove (*keyword*: mutation), one 
>>> need to do
>>>
>>> ```
>>>   array = array.remove(index);  // return a new container
>>>
>>>   // v.s.
>>>   aa.remove(key);  // return bool (if it's removed)
>>> ```
>>>
>>> This in-consistence is really bad.
>>
>> One of them is part of DRuntime, and the other is a function 
>> you can optionally import from Phobos. The fact that they do 
>> not work the same way is not necessarily bad—they’re from 
>> completely different places and serve completely different 
>> purposes.
>
> Naa, inconsistency is a bad design.

Do hate value types for not being consistent with reference types 
then? That’s the main difference between the two: slices are 
values and associative arrays are references.