hclang 0.18.0 → 0.19.0

package/esm/lib/frames/frame.js

@@ -370,17 +370,20 @@ export class Frame extends MetaFrame {
      * and never of the source, which is why no source has to declare an element
      * type. Nothing is materialized on the receiver's behalf.
      *
-     * An empty stream answers nil whatever it started from: a reduce with nothing
-     * to work with has no result to report, and answering the seed would report a
-     * value that never took part.
+     * An empty stream answers the receiver it started from. The receiver is the
+     * accumulator before any element arrives, so a fold over nothing is that
+     * accumulator: an empty collect is `[]`, an empty join `“”`, an empty product
+     * `1`. This is what keeps a reduce compositional, since folding a whole stream
+     * must equal folding its first part and continuing from that answer, even
+     * when the first part is empty.
      */
     reduce(receiver, receiverState) {
         return Frame.reduceInto(this.elements(), receiver, receiverState);
     }
-    /** Threads one stream through a receiver, answering nil for an empty one. */
+    /** Threads one stream through a receiver, answering the receiver for an empty one. */
     static reduceInto(values, receiver, receiverState) {
         if (values.length === 0) {
-            return Frame.nil;
+            return receiver;
         }
         return values.reduce((accumulator, value) => accumulator.call(value, Frame.nil, receiverState), receiver);
     }

package/esm/lib/version.js

@@ -1 +1 @@
-export const VERSION = "0.18.0";
+export const VERSION = "0.19.0";

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "hclang",
-  "version": "0.18.0",
+  "version": "0.19.0",
   "description": "Homoiconic C command-line interpreter and REPL",
   "keywords": [
     "language",