I expected popFront at first to return the popped element as
well, and would use a function like that. You're not alone.
But... like you did, I'd just define my own convenience function
and UFCS keeps everything readable so no biggie. But something in
Phobos would be better, methinks. std.range.take is similar, but
not the same since it returns a range and not an element. Also,
it requires passing in the very common "1" as an argument.
Atila
This is what I've done. I'm just surprised that such an obvious
function
doesn't exist, and suspect I was just retarded at phobos again.
Having a function that does this is kinda important to simplify
lots of
expressions that otherwise need to be broken out across a bunch
of lines.
Does nobody see this coming up in their code? I have it
basically every
time I use ranges, and as usual, surprised others don't feel
the same way.
