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[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Chad J
> <gamerchad at __spam.is.bad__gmail.com> wrote:
>> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> first/last - 13: Jarrett, Bill, dsimcha, Sandeep, Chad, Tiago, Robert,
>>> Simen, Brian, Bill, Yigal, Gide,  Ary.
>>>
>>> head/toe - 9: Bill, dsimcha, Robert, Simen, Max, Don, Michel, Denis, Brian,
>>>
>>> front/back - 15: dsimcha, Chad, Steve, Robert, Nick, BCS, Bill, BLS,
>>> Yigal, Daniel, Max, Don, Gide, Brian, Andrei.
>>>
>>> head/last - 7: John, Chad, Sean, Nick, Yigal, Kazuhiro, Max.
>>>
>>> There were other choices that were not as popular as the ones above,
>>> please don't be angry I didn't mention them all.
>>>
>>> This vote was rather informal so I allowed myself to do a tally without
>>> having specified a deadline etc. So I'm not sure how much this all
>>> counts... should we just settle for front and back?
>>>
>>>
>>> Andrei
>> Um, awesome thanks for the vote.
> 
> Just thinking about what will happen when we get containers
> integrating these kind of ranges.  Like a deque.  With current
> nomenclature we might end up with names like popHead and popToe.
> Both sound kinda... gross.

Now if we are about to settle for front and back, how about following 
STL all the way through and using popFront and popBack? That would make 
for a very clean nomenclature.

Andrei