On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 9:21 AM, Paolo Bonzini <bonzini at gnu.org> wrote:

> This method is called #fold: in VisualWorks, GNU Smalltalk and others.
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>>> Paolo
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>> Ah ok.  It's called reduce in python and Lisp, and that's also what
>> Lukas named it in his package.
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> I think #fold: is the Haskell name (they have both foldl and foldr), but
> probably it comes from somewhere else.  Eliot should know...


I wish I knew for sure.  I think it is called fold in certain lisps too.
 But I defer to
Wikipedia<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fold_%28higher-order_function%29>.
They prefer fold but also give *reduce*, *accumulate*, *compress* &
*inject*(their emphasis) as other names.


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> Paolo
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