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

[Carter Schonwald]

LookupThenRemove seems like a more descriptive name.  Though I guess I can
see why pop has appeal.

On Sun, Dec 6, 2020 at 11:44 AM David Feuer <david.feuer at gmail.com> wrote:

> I suggest you add a version for Data.Sequence combining lookup with
> deleteAt. I wanted that for something fairly recently.
>
> On Sun, Dec 6, 2020, 11:41 AM Martijn Bastiaan via Libraries <
> libraries at haskell.org> wrote:
>
>> 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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