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Re:Functors, Applicatives, and Monads in Pictures (2013) by pwm on Thursday October 21, 2021 @06:51AM (#28942701)
Nope, `fmap` is indeed short for functor map. It's a historical accident in Haskell as `map` was specialised for lists (ie. `[]`) from the start and later, when mapping would be generalised to all things Functorial, it needed a new name so as to not break everything, hence `fmap`.
Re:Functors, Applicatives, and Monads in Pictures (2013) by wlamartin on Thursday October 21, 2021 @07:26AM (#28942924)
Awesome thank you for the clarification. I extra agree with the confusion then since `fmap` sounded exactly like `flatMap` to me!