@Gankro I love thinking of `Option` as a container with a maximum count of 1
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Replying to @JakeGoulding
"take a list of lists and concat the sublists into one" "keep doing some fallible op until one step fails" SO DIFFERENT
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Replying to @Gankra_
ITYM take a list of things, transform each thing into a list; and combine the results into one. You forgot the map part of flat_map
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Replying to @JakeGoulding
character limit -- I haven't generally seen "lossy" flat_maps. I think all I've seen are ones that "strictly grow". Disagree?
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Replying to @Gankra_
main example I think of immediately is Iterator<Option<T>> -> Vec<T> via flat_map (or Result).
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Replying to @JakeGoulding
ah, so basically just "filter, but our type system is too good to admit it"
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Replying to @Gankra_ @JakeGoulding
oh no wait, our type system isn't https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/iter/trait.Iterator.html#method.filter_map …
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“our” type system? I’m telling on you.
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