On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 2:12 PM, 'Rupert Smith' via Elm Discuss < elm-discuss@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> -1 from me. foldl and foldr are so commonly in use in other functional > languages that they are an acceptable short hand. Who cares what Scala does. > > The main target of Elm are developers who come from imperative languages like javascript, python or ruby. People with a background in FP might actually get a little bit frustrated with Elm due to it deliberately leaving out certain facilities like type-classes. The thing is that if Elm convinces even a very small fraction of the JS devs to move to FP, that would be a huge win for FP. Considering this, it would actually make more sense to call foldl *reduce* and remove foldr all together while providing that functionality via reversing the list/array. This could make things more familiar for JS/Python/Ruby while maybe frustrating people coming from Haskell/OCaml/Erlang/Elixir. -- There is NO FATE, we are the creators. blog: http://damoc.ro/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Elm Discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elm-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
