bearophile wrote:
popFront, and popBack:
An alternative possibility is to have "pop" and "popFront", where "pop" removes
from the back.
In Python you can use pop() to remove from the back and pop(0) to remove from
the front, but I presume this isn't much appreciated in D.
Bye,
bearophile
There are structures (heap, stack) that only allow pop, which would make
matters rather confusing. One nice thing about the STL is a consistent
naming convention. They have front, back, push_front, push_back,
pop_front, and pop_back when these make sense. When only one pop makes
sense, the name of the function is pop, as expected. The nice thing is
there's almost no need to explain what each of these does and why
they're called that way.
Andrei
