reduce -> fold?

ixid via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Jan 29 08:25:05 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?
>
> Andrei

Absolutely yes!


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