Proposal: takeFront and takeBack

[Tobias Pankrath]

On Wednesday, 4 July 2012 at 08:25:19 UTC, Mehrdad wrote:
>
> Where have you last ever seen a read() method whose default 
> behavior was NOT to modify the 
> collection/range/iterator/stream/whatever?

That's a good question. When writing it, I was thinking about 
real world analogies like reading a book, not about APIs. But you 
are right, read is most often used with streams where it does 
change the stream.

So I wouldn't object the choice of readFront, but would be 
happier if all of the streaming APIs out there would use retrieve 
instead of read :-)