From: Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
Date: 2000-11-14T19:36:21+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:6355] Re: Another Smalltalk control structure idea

On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, hipster wrote:

> On Tue, 14 Nov 2000  15:29:31 +0900, Conrad Schneiker/Austin/Contr/IBM wrote:
> [snip] 
	[...]
> > 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.

Is it any help to remind people that Python has
    map
    filter
    reduce
which operate on lists?  See:
http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/built-in-funcs.html
for what they do.

I noticed from the Ruby Central library reference:
http://www.rubycentral.com/ref/index.html
that Ruby has map! but doesn't seem to have map.  It doesn't have
filter or reduce either.

> 
> Regarding the camelCase vs. underscore discussion, I'd like to express
> my preference for underscores.
> 
I'd agree, but could live with the other.
> 	Michel
> 
	Hugh