Wow, looking back it was awfully dense of me to have your clear explanation about needing to define a setter and then coming over here to post some hack using join. Sorry for that.
Even though my popnth function works, it's a worse solution because by ignoring setforms it only works for the specific case of pop rather than the whole family of destructive functions. Is this accurate?
I'm a good deal more comfortable with the setter concept after your and thaddeus' examples. Thanks to both of you for your patience with a newb. I've been super impressed with this forum so far: the community is small but outstanding.
Yep. By defining popnth, you get a single function that performs a specific task. But if you define a setform, now any function that wants to operate on a "place" can do so.
