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From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
Reply-To: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <cljs@PointedEars.de>
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Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 21:42:38 +0100
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Joao Rodrigues wrote:

> On 17/12/2013 12:12, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>> One can also access the first and last element of a sorted array:
>>
>>    var sortedCopy = arr.slice().sort(function (a, b) { return a - b; });
>>    var low = sortedCopy[0];
>>    var high = sortedCopy[sortedCopy.length - 1];
>>
>> <http://ecma-international.org/ecma-262/5.1/#sec-15.4.4.11>
> 
> or
> 
> var low = sortedCopy.shift();
> var high = sortedCopy.pop();

If you do not need the original copy later.  Because the property accessor 
does not modify the array like these two methods do.

>> Finally, all implementations of ECMAScript Ed. 5 – not just JavaScript
>> anymore – provide Array.prototype.reduce(), as mentioned by Björn:
>>
>>    var low = arr.reduce(
>>      function (accumulator, e, i, a) {
>>        if (е < accumulator)
>>        {
>>          return e;
>>        }
>>
>>        return accumulator;
>>      },
>>      arr[0]);
>>
>> <http://ecma-international.org/ecma-262/5.1/#sec-15.4.4.21>
> 
> 'accumulator' is a bad name, as you are not accumulating anything in
> that function.

The name fits.  An accumulator in computer science is a container that 
stores an intermediate value (remember the processor registers)?  As you
can see, it is directly from the Specification.
 
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