removing an item from an array

How come there is no straight-foward obvious way to simply remove a given value from an array? Just look at the number of horrible ways people solve this obvious problem: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7225070/php-array-delete-by-value-not-key Shouldn't we have something simple, like: array_remove($array, $value) : array (returns a new array) and/or array_delete(&$array, $value) : bool (modifies array directly) ?