[Python-ideas] Rehabilating reduce (as "fold")

[Paul Moore]

On 12 July 2013 09:03, Andrew Barnert <abarnert at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Meanwhile, there are an awful lot of people who just don't like
> reduce/fold in any situation. The quote "Inside every reduce is a loop
> trying to get out" appears quite frequently, on this list and elsewhere.


And yet we keep getting cases like the sum discussion which is a fold in
essence, but people reject suggestions of "just use a loop". So it doesn't
look like the loop is trying very hard to get out :-)

Whether "inside every specialised function there is a fold trying to get
out" is any more likely to gain traction, I don't know...

Paul
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