Guido van Rossum wrote:
- the identity (defaulting to 0) if the sequence is empty
- the first and only element if the sequence only has one element
- (...(((A + B) + C) + D) + ...) if the sequence has more than one element
While this might be reasonable if the identity
argument is not specified, I think that if an
identity is specified, it should be used even
if the sequence is non-empty. The reason being
that the user might be relying on that to get
the semantics he wants.
Think of the second argument as "accumulator
object" rather than "identity".
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