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Re:Ask HN: How to be fluent in functional language speak? by jimbokun on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @11:46AM (#23092335)
> As someone who doesn't really understand FP concepts I would probably call those functions "functions that can sensibly be used in a call to array.reduce"

So reduceables?

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Re:Ask HN: How to be fluent in functional language speak? by dllthomas on Saturday May 16, 2020 @12:47PM (#23205023)
That implies that they can be reduced. Maybe "reductors"?

That said, I am on the "name abstractions after the math" side of things. It makes it much clearer what guarantees I have when working with the interface, on either side of it.

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