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The Many Faces of Flat-Map: Part 4
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English - January 28, 2019 07:00 - 24 minutes - 49.3 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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Continuing our 3-part answer to the all-important question "what's the point?", we show that the definitions of `map`, `zip` and `flatMap` are precise and concisely describe their purpose. Knowing this we can strengthen our APIs by not smudging their definitions when convenient.