Tony Morris

@puffnfresh @brmatt How exactly would flat/flatMap help in this case? Sorry, maybe I'm just slow here. :)

@jankrems @BRMatt we need a "map" function which doesn't flatten. We could have a flatten function, flatMap is just mapping then flattening.

@puffnfresh @brmatt Are you assuming a non-object bound map function?

@jankrems @BRMatt what does that mean?

@puffnfresh @brmatt Maybe rephrasing: What would you want to be the result and what is the result with "auto-flattening promise chains"?

@jankrems @BRMatt auto-flattening makes result M[String] but I expected M[M[String]] (I'm writing generic code; don't know what M is)

@puffnfresh As I said: on that abstraction level I agree. But practical example where specifically auto-flatMap of promises fails..?

@jankrems x.map(makeRequest) // my other function expects M[Promise[String]] but get Promise[String] - breaks.