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.

That seems like a stretch. In the documentation I’m looking at, the reduce analogy always follows last, after an explanation of what the function in question does. The way I see it, it’s there as a guide in case you need to do something slightly different from what the builtin function does.

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.

There was a long-standing debate over whether structured programming was better than GOTOs in times past. When object-orientation was first championed by C++, its benefits had to be sold to each developer and manager individually.

Draw your own conclusions about what I think of your argument.

The damn good reasons are in the silicon, not the carbon.

Makeshifts last the longest.

In reply to Re^8: RFC: Should join subsume reduce? by Aristotle
in thread RFC: Should join subsume reduce? by Roy Johnson

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