I haven’t read through the complete proposal in detail, but regarding the 
‘scan’ operation I would like to point out that the definition given in the 
example matches the semantics of what is usually called ‘prescan' or 'exclusive 
scan', whereas ‘scan’ (aka ‘inclusive scan’ or ‘prefix sum’) would not include 
the identity element, and each position of the result would include applying 
the operator to the elements up to and including the element in the same 
position of the source array, e.g.:

  (1..<6).scan(combine: +) // [1, 3, 6, 10, 15, 21]

Sources:
  https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~guyb/papers/Ble93.pdf
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefix_sum

Mark


> On Apr 28, 2016, at 11:11 AM, Chris Lattner <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Hello Swift community,
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