Let's do front, back, popFront, and popBack!

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

bearophile wrote:
> popFront, and popBack:
> 
> An alternative possibility is to have "pop" and "popFront", where "pop" removes from the back.
> 
> In Python you can use pop() to remove from the back and pop(0) to remove from the front, but I presume this isn't much appreciated in D.
> 
> Bye,
> bearophile

There are structures (heap, stack) that only allow pop, which would make 
matters rather confusing. One nice thing about the STL is a consistent 
naming convention. They have front, back, push_front, push_back, 
pop_front, and pop_back when these make sense. When only one pop makes 
sense, the name of the function is pop, as expected. The nice thing is 
there's almost no need to explain what each of these does and why 
they're called that way.

Andrei