Re: flatmap considered harmful?

2017-07-29 Thread Sean McAfee
On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 12:43 PM, Will Coleda wrote: > I agree, that seems like pointless editorializing. > > If you can open a ticket at perl6/doc/issues on github, I'll remove > that sentence this evening. (or someone can beat me to it.) > > OK, it's done: https://github.com/perl6/doc/issues/1

Re: flatmap considered harmful?

2017-07-27 Thread Will Coleda
I agree, that seems like pointless editorializing. If you can open a ticket at perl6/doc/issues on github, I'll remove that sentence this evening. (or someone can beat me to it.) On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 2:39 PM, Sean McAfee wrote: > While browsing the Perl 6 docs recently, here: > > https://docs

flatmap considered harmful?

2017-07-27 Thread Sean McAfee
While browsing the Perl 6 docs recently, here: https://docs.perl6.org/type/List#method_flatmap I noticed this paragraph for the first time: It is considered *bad practice* to use flatmap. Instead of .flatmap( ), > please use .map( ).flat as it is clear when the .flat is called and is > not confu