From: Vincent Foley <vinfoley@iquebec.com>
Subject: [Caml-list] Removing an element from a list
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 15:39:52 -0400

> I would like to know how to remove an element from a list.  For example,
> I would like to remove 3 in this list: [1; 2; 3; 4; 5].  How would I do
> it?

List.filter (fun e -> e <> 3) [1; 2; 3; 4; 5]

This creates the new list [1; 2; 4; 5] and does not modify the original
[1; 2; 3; 4; 5].  In caml, operations on lists is never destructive
(unlike lisp).

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