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Subject: Documentation of reduce in guile manual
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In the guile manual (listed as
ii  guile-1.6-doc                              1.6.8-10build1                             Reference and tutorial documentation for Guile 1.6
on my system)

in node
(info "(guile) SRFI-1 Fold and Map")

I read

 -- Scheme Procedure: reduce f ridentity lst
     `reduce' is a variant of `reduce'.  If LST is `()', RIDENTITY is
     returned.  Otherwise, `(fold (car LST) (cdr LST))' is returned.

The first and the last sentence look pretty much nonsensical to me.

-- 
David Kastrup