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The cognitive burden argument is completely subjective. If you’re used to point-free programming, the first short form probably requires less cognitive burden. To me, it makes way more sense to think about “map the users list over the function that returns name” rather than “map the users list over a brand new anaonymous function that takes a user and calls the name method on it.”


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