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Re:The Lazy Monad by nybble41 on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @12:25PM (#31656675)
"Functor" is a perfectly good and descriptive name… provided you are at least somewhat familiar with the esoteric branch of mathematics it's based on. For someone from a Category Theory background renaming it to "Mappable" would be weird and unintuitive. And as in most things, those actually doing the work get to pick the names that make sense to them.
Re:The Lazy Monad by codebje on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @07:58PM (#31661559)
If you're not even slightly familiar with that branch of mathematics it's still a perfectly good and descriptive name, because you can search for the term and get loads of relevant information from the programming side of things.

(The mathematical basis helping you get deeper insights into it is just a bonus, albeit IMO a valuable one.)