I really have to wonder why are you even using Perl in the first place; it gives people way too much rope, FP or not.

Well, the guy doing the maintenance doesn't get to choose the language he maintains.

And that proves what, exactly? “Noone I know has” is a classic case of unrepresentative sample.

In response to a single example anecodote, I didn't feel it was out of place.

The other Anonymonks have already called you out on that one; this is a straw man.

I still don't think so; every single definition of a function in List::Util explains the function in terms of reduce(), implying that if you'ld only use reduce() for everything, you wouldn't need all these other functions.

Quit the fallacies

Quit the hypocrisy. You and I both know that FP isn't mainstream, and that it's been a known technique for well over fifty years, and that there are damn good reasons for it. This is a known argument; it's been proven, it's DONE. If you want to retread fifty-year old ground, you go do it: you know you're wrong, and I'm getting tired of the trolling, and the miscategorization of my posts.

In reply to Re^7: RFC: Should join subsume reduce? by Anonymous Monk
in thread RFC: Should join subsume reduce? by Roy Johnson

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