Comment by remywang
10 hours ago
I’m so confused, how are you supposed to perform aggregation without reduce? This is like saying “I like plus and times, but I don’t like divide because it’s hard.” I mean sure, but you need it??
10 hours ago
I’m so confused, how are you supposed to perform aggregation without reduce? This is like saying “I like plus and times, but I don’t like divide because it’s hard.” I mean sure, but you need it??
Yeah, but you never _need_ reduce. You can just have a boring loop.
I like boring code.
Not in Elixir. Unless you use tail recursion to simulate the loop. I love reduce and the other functions of the Enum module, so I have 165 calls to reduce in my code base (plus 338 map and 116 filter). It's the swiss army knife of functional programming and I don't see any problem with its usage.