oh, sorry Mike, I see what you mean, reduce would ...

# stdlib

[dr.dreigh]

oh, sorry Mike, I see what you mean, reduce would work on a NonEmptyIterable, I thought you meant as a return from sequence.reduce

[nfrankel]

yep
nobody seemed to care about my point 😂

[dr.dreigh]

I do, but I'm a little biased, if it was me there would be no runtime exceptions in the std lib

[nfrankel]

thanks for the support 🙂
i was actually searching for insights from the developers
they probably could have told why they designed it like that
and perhaps think about making more robust
i think it’s the first time i discover something done better in the java api

[dr.dreigh]

I think it must be an omission/bug. the min/max/maxBy/etc methods on a sequence of comparable T, return T?

[dr.dreigh]

It seems additionally counter intuitive because, the only way to know it is not-empty is to start to consume/evaluate it before reducing. Which might not be desirable as sequences are non strict.