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fold  accumulate  aggregate  fold function  foldl  reduce
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In functional programming, fold refers to a family of higher-order functions that analyze a recursive data structure and through use of a given combining operation, recombine the results of recursively processing its constituent parts, building up a return value. Wikipedia
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In functional programming, fold refers to a family of higher-order functions that analyze a recursive data structure and through use of a given combining operation, recombine the results of recursively processing its constituent parts, building up a return value. Wikipedia
A type of programming operation on data structures Wikipedia Disambiguation