I was a little surprised that fold was not a standard function but I didn't run my mouth off about it - just typed "reduce" into the repl and found out it was called that instead.
On Jun 17, 5:45 pm, Wrexsoul <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jun 17, 2:47 pm, Kyle Schaffrick <[email protected]> wrote: > > > As a friendly suggestion, I'd like to offer that perhaps the derision is > > caused not by the fact that you had the initiative to implement it > > yourself, but rather by such phrasing as: > > > > I'm shocked that [reduce/accum/foldr] is missing from clojure.core. > > > [...] This is one of the most basic, useful functions in functional > > > programming. > > > This seems to assert *as fact* that it is missing > > Well *something* was certainly missing, or I would have found it. You > can't reasonably claim I was lax in my search efforts in this > instance. > > > perhaps worst of all, suggests incompetence on the developers' part for > > excluding it. > > I didn't intend to suggest anything of the sort, only surprise. I have > the feeling that clojure is still slightly incomplete, based on a > number of factors including the way it's discussed here and that > there's no later version than 1.0 apparent yet, so I do expect to find > the odd thing is missing, from the core or from the docs, from time to > time, and I don't take that or intend it to be taken as implying > incompetence on anyone's part, just youth on the part of the entire > project. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
