> Like at some point the neatness of doing all loops as recursion wears off and it's just tiring.
Odd, but I believe you, lol. Elixir's list comprehensions take a `:reduce` option which makes accumulating values a bit more "familiar" and I often use over `reduce`:
for a <- list, reduce: []
acc ->
[a | acc]
end
If you already have a list in Erlang, you can use map and the foldl/foldr reducers. But there's no general for-loop. You're expected to use tail recursion.
Also tbh, I don't like reduce either. I agree with that article posted on HN a while back about devs not liking reduce. Just want to insert into my list or whatever, not have to check how exactly reduce works in this particular language.
> you can use map and the foldl/foldr reducers
Ya, I was saying as an alternative to a more dynamic-looking loop. And I should note that `for` is confusing in Elixir because it is not a for loop, it's a list comprehension. Also, `<-` is actually a match operator and can cause confusion if you think of it as a for loop. I'm actually not sure why they went with `for`. At one point it was `lc`. I do think `for` is better than `lc`, heh.
But yes, I don't hate reduce, but I do try and avoid it in favour of a higher level version if its available. My only real problem with reduce is that I sometimes forget the parameter order, which is why I like using list comprehensions since the accumulator gets labelled.