fold and foldRight then?
tirsdag 25. oktober 2016 11.42.00 UTC+2 skrev Wouter In t Velt følgende:
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> Op dinsdag 25 oktober 2016 02:20:29 UTC+2 schreef Max Goldstein:
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>> Changing things makes upgrading harder, invalidates old code, and gives
>> the larger community the impression that Elm is not stable.
>>
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> The question is whether different naming for "foldl" and "foldr" would
> bring enough benefits to be worth all these (temporary) drawbacks.
> So:
>
> - "foldLeft" and "foldRight" are easier to keep apart/ more readable -
> regardless of someone's previous language
> - "reduce" and ("foldr" or nothing or something else) would be more
> familiar to people coming from JS (and possibly other languages too)
>
> My own background is JS, so "reduce" is familiar.
> But at the same time, I use "foldl" way more often in Elm than I ever used
> "reduce" in JS, and in very different ways.
>
> What I see as a structural drawback to "foldLeft" and "foldRight" is the
> length of the function names: shorter names are better, and (for me at
> least) the extra characters in the function names do not give me any
> relevant info or benefits.
> 90% of the time I use any fold, my output is the same in both directions.
> (like .sum or .maximum etcetera).
> I have never used "foldr" (yet).
>
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