The ambiguity between “Map” (data-structure) and “map” (higher order function)

Posted by tosh on Sunday December 06, 2020 @01:15PM
from the twitter.com dept.

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Re:The ambiguity between “Map” (data-structure) and “map” (h... by magnostherobot on Sunday December 06, 2020 @09:54PM (#25328916)

I think of them as noun and verb: a Map is a mapping from thing to another thing; map the function maps several things to other things.

IMO, neither are quite named right: surely Map should be Mapping, and map should be mapSeveral?

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