The cow is called "List::Util". People seem to like it. People often look for things like min and max, which are reduce-based functions. I'm sorry you find such things pointless and abstract. Perhaps you will one day find a language crippled enough that people can't write bad code in it, and then you will be happy. However, that language will not be Perl. Perl is full of things that do different things in different contexts, and its development trend is to give programmers more power, not to confine them.

The problem you are dealing with is bad programmers, not Perl.

Caution: Contents may have been coded under pressure.

In reply to Re^4: RFC: Should join subsume reduce? by Roy Johnson
in thread RFC: Should join subsume reduce? by Roy Johnson

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