From: Robert Feldt <feldt@...>
Date: 2001-03-12T23:55:36+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:12498] Re: Haskell goodies, RCR and challenge

On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Jean Michel wrote:

> Fine, but did not we say at some stage that reduce might be a better name for
> foldl?
> 
I think its like this:

In functional programming: foldl is left-associative, foldr is
right-associative, reduce is unspecified-associative (the order is not
specified so might be determined by abstract machine, done in parallel
etc)

In Smalltalk: inject for foldl

Ruby have adopted the Smalltalk inject in 1.7.0.

BTW, if we change init to front then maybe tail should be back?

/Robert