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Quildreen Motta (2014-01-29T03:39:12.000Z)

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On 29 January 2014 01:27, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <samth at cs.indiana.edu> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 7:47 PM, Brendan Eich <brendan at mozilla.com> 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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forbes at lindesay.co.uk (2014-02-08T16:55:52.898Z)

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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