delete hash[key] deprecated???

[JAnderson]

Max Samukha wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:23:30 +0400, "Koroskin Denis"
> <2korden+dmd at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> But you still have to remove a dead pointer from a collection:
>>
>> delete *("x" in hash);
>> hash.remove("x");
> 
> If 'remove' was modified to return the removed value, more compact
> syntax would be possible:
> 
> delete hash.remove("x");
> 
> Also, there would be no need to search for the value twice and
> introduce a temporary when the removed value is needed for further
> processing:
> 
> // do something with the value, for example, pass it to a function
> foo(hash.remove("x"));
> 
> instead of:
> auto v = hash["x"];
> hash.remove("x");
> foo(v);

I think this is a good idea.

-Joel