Looks like it's something that's changed over different clojure releases.

On Friday, January 25, 2019 at 3:35:58 PM UTC-8, Brian Craft wrote:
>
> From the docs:
>
> r/fold takes a reducible collection and partitions it into groups of 
> approximately n (default 512) elements. Each group is reduced using the 
> reducef function. The reducef function will be called with no arguments to 
> produce an identity value in each partition. The results of those 
> reductions are then reduced with the combinef (defaults to reducef) 
> function. When called with no arguments, (combinef) must produce its 
> identity element - this will be called multiple times. Operations may be 
> performed in parallel. Results will preserve order.
>
> So, this seems to say r/fold will partition the collection and reduce each 
> partition using the (reducef) as the init value.
>
> Then, all these intermediate results will be reduced with combinef, using 
> (combinef) as the init value.
>
> However, in test it seems (reducef) is never called, and (combinef) is 
> used as the init value for calls to reducef.
>
>   (defn combinef
>     ([] {:combine :f})
>     ([acc v] acc))
>
>   (defn reducef
>     ([] {:reduce :f})
>     ([acc v]
>      (println "acc" acc "v" v)
>      v))
>
>   (clojure.core.reducers/fold combinef reducef ["foo" "bar"])
>
> ; outputs:
> acc {:combine :f} v foo
> acc foo v bar
> "bar"
>
> The accumulator in reducef is the init value from combinef, not the init 
> value from reducef.
>
> What's going on?
>

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