Fold enumeration function

[jakedipity]

Having a fold function like the rust's Iterator::fold would be a nice-to-have for compacting objects array into a single value.

Consider the contrived issue of trying to tally the total count of elements parsed out of a line

count(25) count(3) count(42) count(1);

This is currently possible but requires side effects to accomplish:

matches = parse_regex_all!(.message, r'count\((?<count>\d+)\)')
.count = 0
for_each(matches) -> |_index, value| {
  .count = .count + (to_int(value.count) ?? 0)
}

A fold function provides a slightly more terse way to accomplish this.

matches = parse_regex_all!(.message, r'count\((?<count>\d+)\)')
.count = fold(matches, 0) -> |accum, _index, value| {
  accum + (to_int(value.count) ?? 0)
}

I got ahead of myself and already started working on an implementation. Assuming you think this function is useful to include in the stdlib, the only thing I'm unsure of now is how to type the accumulator value of the closure.

• The simplest answer is to treat it as Kind::ANY but this always requires type assertions and handling within the function.
• My current implementation treats it as the same type as initial_value, with some small changes to the internals.
• The ideal seems to be a union between the initial_value and closure return type - although this probably requires further changes to the internals

[pront]

Thanks @jakedipity!

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/iter/trait.Iterator.html#method.fold

This sounds good. Similar to https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/iter/trait.Iterator.html#method.fold.