I have a list of MyObj, already sorted by date:

data class MyObj (
    val date : String,
    val dailyAmount : Int,
    val cumulativeAmount : Int,
)

where

cumulativeAmount

is empty I would like to iterate over that list, and populate

cumulativeAmount

with the sum of all

dailyAmount

until that date How to do?

Kotlin stdlib doesn't have a combination fold+map function, so you'll have to do it yourself

ok, so I will just use a standard for loop, which keeps the cumulative amount?

sure, that would be a good way to do it

imperative-style coding isn't the worst -- it pained me but I replaced a functional method with an imperative one yesterday because it was 10x clearer to understand. might be similar here.

it depends. if this were a common pattern, then that would be one thing. I've used

mapAccum

in Haskell plenty of times (that would be the closest equivalent function). but I've never needed this function more than once in Kotlin, so I don't think it's really necessary with how Kotlin code is usually written (or at least how my code is written)

That's a use case for

runningFold

!

list.runningFold(list.first()) { acc, obj ->
    obj.copy(cumulativeAmount = acc.cumulativeAmount + obj.dailyAmount)
}.drop(1)

different behavior than mine: cumulativeSum doesn't include the element itself, and fails on empty list. whether that matters depends on OP (and is easily addressable), of course