Re:Functors, Applicatives, and Monads in Pictures (2013)
by pwm on Thursday October 21, 2021 @06:51AM
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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`.
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