<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">On 12 July 2013 09:03, Andrew Barnert <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:abarnert@yahoo.com" target="_blank">abarnert@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Meanwhile, there are an awful lot of people who just don't like reduce/fold in any situation. The quote "Inside every reduce is a loop trying to get out" appears quite frequently, on this list and elsewhere.</blockquote>
</div><br>And yet we keep getting cases like the sum discussion which is a fold in essence, but people reject suggestions of "just use a loop". So it doesn't look like the loop is trying very hard to get out :-)</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra" style>Whether "inside every specialised function there is a fold trying to get out" is any more likely to gain traction, I don't know...</div><div class="gmail_extra" style>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra" style>Paul</div></div>