Make foldl/4
error outside its domain
#820
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Use single-sided unification rules for
foldl/4
so that something likefoldl(not_a_list, Goal, In, Out)
is an exception instead of silently failing. This would be a breaking change.Some unresolved questions:
foldl/N
whereN > 4
? I originally also wanted to change the otherfoldl
s, but decided against it, since it would break all the code that usesfoldl
like a kind of "maplist
with state".scanl
? I think this change might be significantly more breaking forscanl
than forfoldl
, so I didn't changescanl
.