explode

[Joe Bowbeer]

I think flatmap is odd and I like Tim's suggestion. However if there is a
choice between two odd names then I prefer flatmap because I've encountered
it before in various functional contexts.
On Feb 7, 2013 10:59 AM, "Tim Peierls" <tim at peierls.net> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Brian Goetz <brian.goetz at oracle.com>wrote:
>
>> flatMap is indeed map+flatten, but unfortunately we cannot factor it into
>> two steps because of erasure.  (We can't make a method on
>> Stream<Collection<T>> called flatten() that produces a Stream<T>.)
>>
>
> I wasn't suggesting that the steps could be factored, only that a name
> that suggests the intuitive order of the steps stands a better chance of
> being understood and used by newbies.
>
> --tim
>
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