reduce -> fold?
wobbles via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Jan 29 08:37:00 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
I think yes. Took me ages to realise the difference with reduce.
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