On Friday, 29 January 2016 at 12:08:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
As has been discussed before there's been discussion about
std.algorithm.reduce taking the "wrong" order of arguments (its
definition predates UFCS). I recall the conclusion was there'd
be subtle ambiguities if we worked reduce to implement both
orders.
So the next best solution is to introduce a new name such as
the popular "fold", and put them together in the documentation.
Thoughts?
Andrei
+1
Let's make sure to write the half dozen other names for it in the
documentation so people coming to D from other languages can
easily find it.
And just for completeness, here is monarchdodra's valiant but
ultimately unsuccessful pull request which attempted fix reduce:
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/861#issuecomment-20760448
