Reduce is a function or method that is used to take the values in an array or a list and apply a function to successive members of the list to produce (or reduce them to), a single value.



Task

Show how reduce (or foldl or foldr etc), work (or would be implemented) in your language.



See also

 Wikipedia article:   Fold
 Wikipedia article:   Catamorphism


iex(1)> Enum.reduce(1..10, fn i,acc -> i+acc end)
55
iex(2)> Enum.reduce(1..10, fn i,acc -> i*acc end)
3628800
iex(3)> Enum.reduce(10..-10, "", fn i,acc -> acc <> to_string(i) end)
"109876543210-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10"