From: Martin DeMello Date: 2005-10-20T17:06:59+09:00 Subject: Re: Searching for a name Brian Schr�der wrote: > > delete_min_return_priority deletes the key that has the lowest > assigned priority and returns this priority. delete_min_return_key > does the same but returns the key that had the lowest assigned > priority. Finally delete_min deletes the same key and returns a pair > [key, priority]. gsub('delete', 'extract') perhaps martin