From: Pistos Christou <jesusrubsyou.5.pistos@...>
Date: 2006-05-25T06:06:48+09:00
Subject: Re: rubynuby - confused by method name "inject"

A LeDonne wrote:
> So, in math-speak, I think one could say:
> 
> inject applies a block pairwise as an n-ary operation over an
> Enumerable, with an optional initial value.
> 
> This may or may not help anyone understand it. :)

Shockingly [to myself], I actually understand that, but I think it 
doesn't cover all the possibile uses of inject, some of which are not 
"operator in-betweenings".

But thanks for sharing.  Mentally relating product and summation to 
inject helps me tolerate what I otherwise think is feasibly the most 
unintuitively-named standard method I've ever encountered.

Pistos

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