and one *wrong*. Just that one is at least
slightly better than the other; or even that one was chosen simply
because either was better than neither. API design decisions are not
personal vendettas against your use-case :).
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instead of a padding zip leads to an
incorrect result.
3. Using a padding zip instead of a truncating zip leads to
non-termination.
4. A terminating bug is preferred to a non-terminating bug.
Hence zip is generally truncating.
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in the domain of iter1 or iter2 as
a fence, but a closure is guarrenteed to satisfy that requirement and
hence keeps the code generic. In the padding example, if you actually
care what value is used for pad then either you can either replace
fence, or wrap the result in an imap.
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