Mark M. Young wrote:
I am proposing a replacement for Array.prototype.reduce and
Array.prototype.reduceRight.
Nice. Allowing to pass an argument for the `this` value was missing when
folding an array, and your suggestion `accumulate` is a fitting method name.
However, I fear the use cases are too unimportant to need a fix.
The `this` keyword is becoming less and less used for anything but class
methods. And for those, arrow functions solve the problem needing to
invoke functions on the expected receiver.
For passing in data to a reusable reducer function, closures are much
simpler than setting the `this` value for the callback.
https://github.com/MarkMYoung/ArrayAccumulate
<https://github.com/MarkMYoung/ArrayAccumulate> says
`reduce` is not reusable code because there is no way to know what the second
parameter was once beyond the first iteration.
That makes no sense. The whole point of the initial value parameter is
that it only goes into the first call (if any), or is the return value
in case the array is empty.
the second parameter is always available as `this`.
It really should not be. If you want to pass a value for `this`, it
needs a third parameter.
kind regards,
Bergi
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