Stream: ideas

Topic: why Task.batch not Task.apply


view this post on Zulip Steven Chen (Jan 10 2024 at 15:28):

I sincerely don’t understand why it’s called “batch”. I’m not native in English, my understanding of batch is only about “arrange (things) in sets or groups.”. Why not call it Task.apply? Not only it’s the same name from Haskell applicative functor, but also it’s friendly IMHO: “apply the function (in Task) to the data (also in Task)”


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