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From: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
To: Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com>
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Subject: Re: Associative array "pop" ?
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2021 16:40:52 -0500
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Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com> writes:

> x_foo = foo[x]
> if (x_foo != 0)
>     delete foo[x]
>     # do something with x_foo
> }

This is probably:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10837

... except the "value = delete foo[i]" syntax is kind of meh, and
doesn't work with slice ops like "delete foo[*]".  A functional syntax
like @pop() would look okay.  We try to not introduce new keywords,
except in the @-space, and even there only with version-conditional
parsing.

- FChE