on Thu Apr 28 2016, Pyry Jahkola <[email protected]> wrote: > I would really like a different name for scan. While it’s the term of art > for Haskell and co, it really seems meaningless to regular programmers > (why > is “scanning” the way you produce an array of intermediate reduces?), and > it > would be better to follow the pattern already established elsewhere in the > library to give friendlier names e.g. flatMap instead of bind, reduce > instead of fold. > > I think Python calls it accumulate: > http://docs.python.org/3/library/itertools.html#itertools.accumulate > > FWIW, Clojure calls it `reductions` which aligns pretty nicely with the > `reduce > ` counterpart.
That's cute. > I also think it would be nice for both scan and reduce to have overloads > that take the first value as the initial (and return an optional) but > that’s > probably a separate proposal. > > +1 > > — Pyry > > _______________________________________________ > swift-evolution mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution -- Dave _______________________________________________ swift-evolution mailing list [email protected] https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
