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		edflsafoiewq 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A better (than Optional) maybe for Java Rather than monads, map is more likely to be familiar from sequences, and an optional is just a sequence with length < 2.

eru 5 months ago [–]

Well, monads get their map from functors, and they call it 'map' (or fmap) because of map on sequences.

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