WTH why don't we have "collection" helper?

[Ceplin (Krzysiek Kulakowski)]

Hello!

What I mean is a helper somewhat similar to input_select but designed for storing values of the given type. The API should be designed in a way that allows for automatic insertion, deletion and inspection.

This could be used as a simple notification queue, timers list, etc.

Cheers!

[lonebaggie]

That exactly what I use Input select for

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[Ceplin (Krzysiek Kulakowski)]

I could live with this being an extension to input_select (droping some of limitations, like exptectation of having at least 1 element), and I would strongly prefered if those operations could be easily acessed (service around input_select).