From: hipster <hipster@...4all.nl>
Date: 2000-11-14T17:56:22+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:6351] Re: Another Smalltalk control structure idea

On Tue, 14 Nov 2000  15:29:31 +0900, Conrad Schneiker/Austin/Contr/IBM wrote:
[snip] 
> Anyone know what the equivalent function is called in Mathematica? Maple? 
> MathCAD? <Etc.>? (Or in CLOS/Lisp/Scheme? Or Haskell?)
> 
> Meanwhile, let's consult the Oracle at Google....
> 
> Hmm. What's this here? Your might want to consider "reduce: a generalized 
> inject function" (http://www.xs4all.nl/~hipster/lib/ruby/reduce) as a 
> starting point. It's already written in Ruby. (What a coincidence! :-) And 
> it happens to have the name I prefer.

Credits go to Dave Thomas, see [ruby-talk:03178]. I merely archived
it for posterity.

Regarding the camelCase vs. underscore discussion, I'd like to express
my preference for underscores.

	Michel