No, that is not the trend. A lot of things that perform multiple duties in Perl 5 will receive separate names in Perl 6 (the two forms of for, the two functions called select, and many other things besides).
I don’t see any reason to go counter to this trend by conflating join and reduce. List::Util has been in core for a while so is more likely to be available than this proposed extension of join, and “join” is a bad name for a reduce function anyway.
Makeshifts last the longest.
In reply to Re^5: RFC: Should join subsume reduce?
by Aristotle
in thread RFC: Should join subsume reduce?
by Roy Johnson
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