[Python-3000] map, filter, reduce

[Georg Brandl]

Greg Ewing schrieb:
> 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.

ISTM that this application is even more suited for a plain old `for` loop.

Georg

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