"Alex Martelli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > > The notion that "pop" is only defined for stack operations is somewhat > > pedantic. > > Worse: it's totally wrong. It's also defined for eyes, as a musical > genre, as a kind of soda, as an avant-garde artistic movement of the > '50s, for baloons, as a parent of the male persuasion, for email > reading, and moreover it's often used to refer to Persistent Organic > Pollutants or Points Of Presence -- not forgetting weasels, either. > One should never forget the pawning of weasels.
Then there is the contrary meaning - instead of "take out" it can mean "put in" - Just pop it in the oven, there's a dear... - Hendrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list