From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2008-03-31T15:28:45+09:00
Subject: Re: inject's pathological case...

Hi,

In message "Re: inject's pathological case..."
    on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:27:58 +0900, "David A. Black" <dblack@rubypal.com> writes:

|> AFAIK, Matz correct me if I'm wrong, Ruby got the name inject from
|> Smalltalk, along with collect, select, detect and several other
|> methods.  The other three I mention have alias, map for collect,
|> find_all for select, and find for detect, but inject is still just
|> inject in Ruby.
|
|It picks up the synonym "reduce" in 1.9 -- which I think is kind of
|too bad, since inject in Ruby has such a distinctive personality and
|cult following :-)

reduce, fold, foldl; these are some of the candidates.  But I think I
have to wait for consensus for a while.

							matz.