associative arrays

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Sunday, January 08, 2012 11:02:41 simendsjo wrote:
> On 08.01.2012 10:43, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> > On Sunday, January 08, 2012 03:24:22 Kapps wrote:
> >> Ah, found the bug / pull request.
> >> 
> >> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/597
> >> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4523
> > 
> > Ah, TDPL says that it returns bool. Well, then it definitely needs to be
> > changed, and it's good to see that that there's a pull request for it.
> > So, it should be fixed in the next release. In fact, the number of
> > TDPL-related bugs fixed for the next release should be quite high,
> > which is great.
> > 
> > - Jonathan M Davis
> 
> Wouldn't it make sense to return a pointer to the item being
> removed/null? This way you can continue to work with the item, and it
> would be consistent with `in`.
> 
> if (auto item = aa.remove(key)) {
>    // some additional work on item
> } else { // not found
>    // throw or something
> }

Since the element has been removed from the container, what would the pointer 
point to? The element doesn't exist anymore.

- Jonathan m Davis