[Python-3000] map, filter, reduce
Greg Ewing
greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sat Jun 2 02:15:24 CEST 2007
Terry Reedy wrote:
> It would generate the sequence of partial reductions (potentially
> indefinately).
> list(ireduce(summer, 0, range(5)) = [0, 1, 3, 6, 10]
>
> This is obviously *not* the same as a reduce() which only returns the final
> value without the intermediate values.
It's sufficiently different that I think calling it
'ireduce' would just be confusing.
It's more like a 'running_reduce' or something.
--
Greg
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