On 29 January 2014 01:27, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 7:47 PM, Brendan Eich <[email protected]> wrote: > > Andreas Rossberg wrote: > >> > >> Seriously, Haskell calls it>>=. > > > > > > Right, that thing. Did it have the f-l-a-t-... name in Haskell, or is it > > pronounced b-i-n-d always, monads or not? > > No, it's always called "bind" in Haskell. The name flatMap was > invented for Scala, to the best of my knowledge. > I suppose using names that don't give you a hint of the meaning of the operation fits perfectly Haskell's (and Scalaz's) "Avoid Success At All Costs" tradition 😉
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