[swift-evolution] Reduce with inout

[Jonathan Hull]

While we are at it, could we add a inout/mutating version of forEach (unless something like that exists and I missed it)?  I have been trying to figure out how to run through an array and call a mutating method on each element without copying everything, and I am at a loss…

Thanks,
Jon


> On Jan 22, 2017, at 11:27 PM, Russ Bishop via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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>> 
>> On Jan 22, 2017, at 10:56 PM, Chris Eidhof <chris at eidhof.nl <mailto:chris at eidhof.nl>> wrote:
>> 
>> Not as a direct reply to Russ, but just to reiterate: to me, there are two clear benefits of using the `inout` version of reduce:
>> 
>> 1. The performance (currently discussed at length)
>> 2. Readability (because we can use mutating methods on `inout` arguments).
>> 
>> Even if the compiler were to optimize the unnecessary copy of `return arr + [el]` away, there are still a lot of other mutable methods that you might want to use within the reduce closure. So I think the proposal is still very valid even if the compiler optimizations would magically appear tomorrow.
>> 
>> To push this proposal forward a little bit, I'd like to come up with a good name. It seems like we shouldn't overload `reduce`, but choose a different name, so that we don't stress the typechecker. Any other suggestions?
>> 
>> On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 7:11 AM, Russ Bishop <xenadu at gmail.com <mailto:xenadu at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> -- 
>> Chris Eidhof
> 
> 
> Sorry for the derail!
> 
> reduce(mutating:_:) { } is still my favorite; You can take mutating to mean we will copy the value now but mutate it later.
> 
> 
> Some alternatives:
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> reduce(forMutating:_:) { }
> 
> reduce(forInout:_:) { }
> 
> reduce(initial:_:) { }
> 
> reduce(copying:mutate:) { }
> 
> // just kidding...
> reduce(copyForLaterMutating:_:) { }
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> 
> 
> It should definitely be some form of reduce. 
> 
> Russ
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