Proposal for containers: Add 'pop' function to Data.Map

Martijn Bastiaan martijn at hmbastiaan.nl
Sun Dec 6 16:40:40 UTC 2020


Yeah, Python's `pop` made me call it `pop`. I had hoped to find other 
examples, but Java, Rust, and Ruby don't seem to offer `pop`-like 
functions for their (hash)maps.

On 12/6/20 5:29 PM, Tom Ellis wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 06, 2020 at 11:25:33AM -0500, David Feuer wrote:
>> The name pop makes me think of a stack. Is this use of the word common?
> Python uses that name, which is why I'm familiar with it:
>
>>>> d = {'a': 1, 'b': 2}
>>>> d.pop('b')
> 2
>>>> d
> {'a': 1}
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