another "best practices" question - inject

> The "Inject:Into:" pattern in "Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns" says "Call
> the block arguments sum and each." That seems crazy! Why would I name the
> first argument "sum" if I've trying to do something other than sum the
> values? The example the book gives is the following.
>
> ^self children
>        inject: 0
>        into: [:sum :each | sum max: each]
>
> I think I'd do this.
>
> ^self children
>        inject: 0
>        into: [:maximum :each | maximum max: each]
>
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> Mark Volkmann
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