Can't chain reduce(seed, range)

[Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Monday, August 31, 2015 01:31:58 Yuxuan Shui via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> Why is reduce defined as 'auto reduce(S, R)(S seed, R r)',
> instead of reduce(R r, S seed)? I can't chain it.
>
> Maybe provide both?

The reasons why the seed is first are historical. It predates UFCS being
added to the language, so there was no reason to put the range first when
when it was added to Phobos. I believe that there have been attempts to fix
it, but AFAIK, they ran into too many problems to be able to do it without
breaking existing code.

- Jonathan M Davis