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Re:Flatten Arrays in Vanilla JavaScript with Flat() and Flat... by scotty79 on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @01:38PM (#29813078)
A lot of funtional primitives have really counterintuitive names for me. flatMap is one of them.
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Re:Flatten Arrays in Vanilla JavaScript with Flat() and Flat... by saranshk on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @01:40PM (#29813108)
agreed, though I doubt there's anything we can do about it.
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Re:Flatten Arrays in Vanilla JavaScript with Flat() and Flat... by chusk3 on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @01:48PM (#29813196)
In F# we call it 'collect' instead, partially for this reason.
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Re:Flatten Arrays in Vanilla JavaScript with Flat() and Flat... by scotty79 on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @05:49PM (#29816260)
When I tried to come up with better name for flatMap I got gather.

So maybe collect is a better idea.

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