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by tel 4305 days ago
flatMap is the fundamental transducer (of a particular model). To be clear, the function a -> [b] subsumes mapping and filtering---if [b] is always a single element then a -> [b] is a map, if [b] is always either 0-or-1 elements then a -> [b] is a filter (possibly adjoined to a map).