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Joe Bowbeer joe.bowbeer at gmail.com
Thu Feb 7 11:13:45 PST 2013

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> called flatten() that produces a Stream.)

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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