On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Daniel Carrera < daniel.carr...@theingots.org> wrote:
> The terms I've seen are "fold" and "reduce". The "fold" term is not just > from Haskell. I've seen it elsewhere. If you had said "inject" I wouldn't > have known what you meant. > The name "inject" comes from Smalltalk, where you :inject the initial value :into the operation, whose arguments are the accumulator and the new item (it has no "fold-1" variant). Wikipedia mentions "accumulate" (C++) and "compress" (no example cited) as additional names. In Perl6, I assume [...] automatically folds left on left-associative operators and right on right-associative ones? -- Mark J. Reed <markjr...@gmail.com>
