Should reduce take range as first argument?
Justin Whear
justin at economicmodeling.com
Mon May 14 14:10:28 PDT 2012
In its current form, std.algorithm.reduce takes optional seed value(s)
for the accumulator(s) as its first argument(s). This breaks the nice
chaining effect made possible by UFCS:
Works:
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auto foo = reduce!((string s, string x) => s ~= x)("BLAH", args.map!(x =>
x[1..$-1]));
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Doesn't work, but looks much nicer:
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auto foo = args.map!(x => x[1..$-1]))
.reduce!((string s, string x) => s ~= x)("BLAH");
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This could be fixed with a breaking change by making the subject range to
be the first parameter. Aside from breaking existing code, are there
other obstacles to changing this?
Justin Whear
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