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The Many Faces of Flat-Map: Part 3
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English - January 21, 2019 07:00 - 36 minutes - 88.6 MB Video - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsTechnology Education programming development mobile ios functional swift apple developer software engineering server Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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We are now ready to answer the all-important question: what's the point? We will describe 3 important ideas that are now more accessible due to our deep study of `map`, `zip` and `flatMap`. We will start by showing that this trio of operations forms a kind of functional, domain-specific language for data transformations.