reduce -> fold?

Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Feb 2 12:02:39 PST 2016


On 2/2/16 11:02 AM, Atila Neves wrote:
> On Friday, 29 January 2016 at 12:08:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> As has been discussed before there's been discussion about
>> std.algorithm.reduce taking the "wrong" order of arguments (its
>> definition predates UFCS). I recall the conclusion was there'd be
>> subtle ambiguities if we worked reduce to implement both orders.
>>
>> So the next best solution is to introduce a new name such as the
>> popular "fold", and put them together in the documentation.
>>
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Andrei
>
> Definitely yes.

Atila, wanna do the honors? -- Andrei



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