From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "Clément Pit--Claudel" <clement.pit@gmail.com>, 24014@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24014: 24.5; doc string of `cl-reduce'
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 07:02:30 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <791de973-6bb2-4bd3-a375-b6866e594ad2@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <578C993D.10507@gmail.com>
> > Even providing a functional-programming definition of `reduce' is
> > better than just describing it in abstract terms, if we can't come
> > up with a more down-to-earth description.
>
> What about adding a few examples? Something like this maybe?
>
> (cl-reduce f '(1 2 3 4 5))
> ↔ (f (f (f (f 1 2) 3) 4) 5)
>
> (cl-reduce f '(1 2 3 4 5) :initial-value 0)
> ↔ (f (f (f (f (f 0 1) 2) 3) 4) 5)
>
> (cl-reduce f '(1 2 3 4 5) :from-end t)
> ↔ (f 1 (f 2 (f 3 (f 4 5))))
>
> (cl-reduce f '(1 2 3 4 5) :from-end t :initial-value 0)
> ↔ (f 1 (f 2 (f 3 (f 4 (f 5 0)))))
LGTM - except that f should be quoted as an arg to `cl-reduce'.
E.g. (cl-reduce 'f '(1 2 3)).
And a shorter list makes things a tiny bit simpler: (1 2 3).
(And I'm not crazy about the too-short double arrow, personally.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-18 14:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-17 14:55 bug#24014: 24.5; doc string of `cl-reduce' Drew Adams
2016-07-17 15:57 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-07-17 21:18 ` Nicolas Petton
2016-07-18 4:44 ` Drew Adams
2016-07-18 12:19 ` Nicolas Petton
2021-10-23 17:32 ` Stefan Kangas
2016-07-18 4:41 ` Drew Adams
2016-07-18 8:54 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-07-18 14:02 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2016-07-18 16:03 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-07-18 17:28 ` Drew Adams
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