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proposal-flatMap

proposal for flatten and flatMap on arrays

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proposal for flatten and flatMap on arrays

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Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 8:27:21 AM UTC.

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HN mentions by year11 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2018-03-07 08:29:38 UTC to 2022-10-10 23:18:14 UTC.

02462018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 2 submissions, 5 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022

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20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC725
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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kevlened·Jul 31, 2019
Infinity was originally the default (which feels intuitive), but here's the argument for changing it [0]: "I think Array#flatten should be shallow by default because it makes sense to do less work by default, it aligns with existing APIs like the DOM Node#cloneNode which is shallow by default, and it would align with the existing ES3 pattern of using Array#concat for a shallow flatten. Shallow by default would also align with flatMap too." [0] https://github.com/tc39/proposal-flatMap/issues/9
In What’s New in ES2019
kevlened·Jul 31, 2019
Infinity was originally the default (which feels intuitive), but here's the argument for changing it [0]: "I think Array#flatten should be shallow by default because it makes sense to do less work by default, it aligns with existing APIs like the DOM Node#cloneNode which is shallow by default, and it would align with the existing ES3 pattern of using Array#concat for a shallow flatten. Shallow by default would also align with flatMap too." [0] https://github.com/tc39/proposal-flatMap/issues/9
In What’s New in ES2019

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