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   From: marc.glisse@gmail.com   
      
   Gene Bushuyev  wrote:   
      
   > On Aug 23, 6:49 pm, "gast...@hotmail.com"  wrote:   
   >> Hello all,   
   >>   
   >> I was wondering why the c++ committee didn't decide to stick to the   
   >> '_if' convention as used in other STL algorithm, like all/all_if,   
   >> any / any_if etc.   
   >   
   > It depends on personal preferences and perhaps the area of expertise.   
   > All those mentioned algorithms were known under the name of "reduce"   
   > functions since the dawn of hardware design languages. So I would   
   > prefer them to be called the same way: or_reduce, and and_reduce. But   
   > the real question, where is the equivalent of xor_reduce? And if they   
   > do decide to add it, I can't find any descriptive name consistent with   
   > this naming convention.   
      
   xor_reduce would just be sum/count/cardinality modulo 2 (ie its   
   parity) right? I don't really understand what oddity you are looking   
   for there ;-)   
      
      
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