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Re:Notes on Haskell: What's Wrong with the For Loop by pjscott on Tuesday March 08, 2011 @07:26PM (#2303225)
Technically, Python's reduce function is equivalent to a duck-typed version of Haskell's foldl1' function. It's strict, and it has no starting value argument.

(Nitpicking forever!)

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Re:Notes on Haskell: What's Wrong with the For Loop by rwl on Tuesday March 08, 2011 @11:09PM (#2303748)
Well, as long as we're nitpicking...

Python's reduce function has an optional starting value argument: http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#reduce

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