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adamddev1 15 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce"

I like the name `fold` as used by Haskell, Racket, et al. It gives me an image of folding up a long list into a ball, one chunk at a time.

anitil 15 days ago [–]

I like fold too, but I can never remember foldl vs foldr, it's always backwards to what I expect somehow

internet_points 15 days ago | [–]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49736033 may help :)

anitil 14 days ago | | [–]

Thanks! That visual style approach works better for me, hopefully it sticks

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