From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Nicolas Petton <nicolas@petton.fr>,
Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
Cc: 24014@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24014: 24.5; doc string of `cl-reduce'
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2016 21:44:50 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fcc90aa4-6300-4934-9c90-68448e61e443@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878tx0hskr.fsf@petton.fr>
> >> Please state in the doc string what the function does. IOW,
> >> explain/describe/specify what "reduce" means. Do not suppose that Emacs
> >> Lisp users are all familiar with functional programming etc.
>
> The documentation of `seq-reduce' is probably not perfect, but at least
> it tries to explain what reducing means:
>
> Return the result of calling FUNCTION with INITIAL-VALUE and the
> first element of SEQUENCE, then calling FUNCTION with that result and
> the second element of SEQUENCE, then with that result and the third
> element of SEQUENCE, etc.
>
> If SEQUENCE is empty, return INITIAL-VALUE and FUNCTION is not called.
Much better, yes. This is the right level at which to describe what
it does for most programmers, IMO.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-18 4:44 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 [this message]
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
2016-07-18 16:03 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-07-18 17:28 ` Drew Adams
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