Should this work?

[Marco Leise]

Am Sat, 11 Jan 2014 10:56:32 +1000
schrieb Manu <turkeyman at gmail.com>:

> On 11 January 2014 02:28, Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
> > wrote:
> 
> > On 1/10/14 6:02 AM, Manu wrote:
> >
> >> I won't start another annoying thread.
> >>
> >
> > Great idea.
> >
> >
> >  What's the go with popFront()... it returns nothing?
> >> I almost always want to pop and return the front element. I can't find a
> >> function to do that... have I missed something again?
> >>
> >
> > http://dlang.org/phobos/std_range.html#.dropOne
> >
> > What do you want us to do, RTFM to you?
> >
> 
> That's not what I want at all.
> Maybe moveFront is what I want... but it's not clear. It doesn't really say
> what it does in the docs.
> Looking at the code, it's way more complex than I'd expect, and I can't see
> anywhere that it pops it from the range, which leads me to suspect it's not
> what I want either. I have no idea what moveFront is.

I think it is a function to move items out of a container.
I.e. move the ownership to the caller and leave the slot in
the container in a harmless/.init state.

-- 
Marco