Ask HN: Does the idea of a "reduce-map" function make any sense?
I'm looking for a name for this concept, and wondered whether "reduce-map" would be a good one - maybe I could say that I reduce the document to a function, which returns a map (the formated string). To find out whether a "reduce-map" moniker had any currency, and if it did, in which context, I googled program "reduce-map":
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=program+%22reduce-map%22
But due to the fact that Google doesn't search for an exact string or substring even if you format it using doublequotes (which it does seem to promise; compare 'M.I.A.'s album "/\/\/\Y/\" is ungoogleable', http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1363489 ), what I got back was a slew of ordinary map-reduce tutorials. So I still don't know whether "reduce-map" would mean to other people what I want it to mean. I would be thankful for your take on that.