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1. remywang · 1789606741 · focus · HN ↗

   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??

   1. jay_kyburz · 1789607311 · focus · HN ↗

      Yeah, but you never _need_ reduce. You can just have a boring loop.

      I like boring code.

      1. lkuty · 1789623360 · focus · HN ↗

         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.

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