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True, but I would not be surprised if the vast majority of Java programmers have no clue what a monad is.

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• chii 2y ago
  > no clue what a monad is. which is a good opportunity to introduce said nomenclature, and ideas to them, rather than renaming said method to something more "palatable".
  • Dansvidania 2y ago
    In my experience just name-dropping monads in non functional-programming oriented circles will get weird looks. EDIT: I would even argue, as a fan of FP, that it's not immediately obvious how this terminology or concept even helps, from the point of view of a non purely functional programming language
    • mrkeen 2y ago
      Because the alternative to using one name is using more than one name. These days I'm pretty sure I'm using `select` to mean `map`.
• xigoi 2y ago
  You don’t need to mention monads, just imagine an Optional as a list with at most one element.