On Fri, 29 Apr 2022 at 18:39, Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > > On 29/04/22 6:02 am, Zach Victor wrote: > > For me, pop() says "give me something." > > In English the word "pop" doesn't necessarily imply getting > something wanted, or even getting anything at all. Think > popping a champagne cork, or popping a balloon.
Yeah, but if you do any stack-based programming, you get used to pushing and popping everything, so the idea that "pop" means "remove that thing and give it to me" has a good parallel. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/EKRNNXW4HGKLFOZMEWOOFKPQL52T7ZFT/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
