Proposal: add Array.prototype.remove

[jolleekin]

Surprisingly, Array has always lacked a method to remove an item. To remove an item, one has to use indexOf (or lastIndexOf) and splice, which is very inconvenient. It would be nice if the following method (written in TypeScript here) could be added to Array.

class Array<E> {
    /**
     * Removes the first occurrence of [item] from this array.
     * 
     * Returns `true` if [item] was in this array and `false` otherwise.
     */
    remove(item: E): boolean {
        const i = this.indexOf(item);
        if (i >= 0) {
            this.splice(i, 1);
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }
}

[ljharb]

Please see https://github.com/tc39/ecma262/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#new-feature-proposals for how best to suggest new features.

(As an aside, .filter seems like a much better non-mutating approach here than two O(n) operations)

[ljharb]

Please see https://github.com/tc39/ecma262/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#new-feature-proposals for how best to suggest new features.

(As an aside, .filter seems like a much better non-mutating approach here than two O(n) operations)