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I don't understand why so many people are so enthusiastic about flatmap. It's never seemed particularly difficult to understand, and in my experience is less u
by jlarocco 11y ago
I don't understand why so many people are so enthusiastic about flatmap. It's never seemed particularly difficult to understand, and in my experience is less useful than map.
The Scala community in particular seems to have a comical number of articles praising it and explaining how to use it. I just don't get it.
- dllthomas 11y agoFlatmap is "bind" from Haskell - a part of the interface called "Monad", about which many people are excited for both good reasons and poor reasons.