pop & popFront combined

[anonymous via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Saturday, 1 November 2014 at 13:22:34 UTC, Nordlöw wrote:
> On Saturday, 1 November 2014 at 11:45:25 UTC, Nordlöw wrote:
>> So why isn't something like x.stealFront already in Phobos?
>
> First try here:
>
> https://github.com/nordlow/justd/blob/master/range_ex.d#L14
>
> Please comment!

That is:

> auto ref stealFront(R)(ref R r)
> {
> import std.range: moveFront, popFront;
> auto e = r.moveFront;
> r.popFront;
> return e;
> }

`auto ref` is nonsense here. You can't return a reference to `e`
as
it's a local variable.