[wlamartin]

Seems like this would be a bit confusing though? `fmap` (flatMap) corresponds to `bind` or `chain` (Monad) rather than `map` (Functor) right?

[pwm]

Nope, `fmap` is indeed short for functor map. It's a historical accident in Haskell as `map` was specialised for lists (ie. `[]`) from the start and later, when mapping would be generalised to all things Functorial, it needed a new name so as to not break everything, hence `fmap`.

[wlamartin]

Awesome thank you for the clarification. I extra agree with the confusion then since `fmap` sounded exactly like `flatMap` to me!

[Twisol]

No, "fmap" is actually the name in Haskell given to the function defined by the Functor typeclass. It was named "fmap" ("f"unctor map) because "map" was already taken by the map specialized to lists.

[sfvisser]

`flatMap` is actually called `concatMap` in Haskell, or more generically the monadic bind operator `>>=`.