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		The ambiguity between “Map” (data-structure) and “map” (higher order function) (twitter.com/brandonbloom)
		4 points by tosh on Dec 6, 2020 \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 1 comment

magnostherobot on Dec 7, 2020 [–]

I think of them as noun and verb: a Map is a mapping from thing to another thing; map the function maps several things to other things.

IMO, neither are quite named right: surely Map should be Mapping, and map should be mapSeveral?

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