reduce -> fold?
Atila Neves via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Feb 2 12:50:52 PST 2016
On Tuesday, 2 February 2016 at 20:02:39 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
> 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
If it's not urgent, sure.
Atila
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