reduce -> fold?
Adrian Matoga via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Jan 29 04:17:19 PST 2016
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?
YES!
There was a topic on this [1] and some implementation proposed.
I'm not sure if it was the only one.
[1]
http://forum.dlang.org/post/sqbizjwcyavbrxwagnwl@forum.dlang.org
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