Austin Hastings wrote:
I'm thinking that APL is dead for a reason. And that every language designer in the world has had a chance to pick over its dessicated bones: all the good stuff has been stolen already. So while "scans" may fall out as a potential side-effect of reduce, the real question should be "are 'scans' useful enough to justify introducing context sensitivity to the reduce operation?"
Amen! Damian
