reduce -> fold?

Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Jan 29 16:51:31 PST 2016


On Friday, 29 January 2016 at 13:11:34 UTC, Luís Marques wrote:
> On Friday, 29 January 2016 at 12:08:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
> wrote:
>> So the next best solution is to introduce a new name such as 
>> the popular "fold", and put them together in the documentation.
>
> Just to bikeshed a little, I remember that when I first started 
> using std.algorithm I was ctrl-F'ing for "accumulate" and not 
> finding it quite often. D competes with C++ directly, so do 
> consider that name :-)

I'm not sure what the problem was, but the documentation for 
"reduce" already mentions "accumulate":

https://dlang.org/library/std/algorithm/iteration/reduce.html


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