> Is there a better term, more respectable, or better known to the FP
> community, or more descriptive, or ... just better,  than "slice and dice"?

Google calls their function "mapreduce", which is really f/.

Others have called the f/ operation a "fold".

   see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fold_(higher-order_function)

In fact, J is represented in the table about halfway down in the above link.





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