Why concatMap instead of concat.map?

[Martin Norbäck]

ons 2002-09-11 klockan 04.50 skrev Dr Mark H Phillips:
> Hi,
> 
> Why does Haskell have a special function called concatMap,
> rather than people just doing "concat.map"?  Is it because
> concatMap has a more sophisticated implementation than doing just
> "concat.map"?

I think it's just because it's easier to read/write

concatMap f list

than

(concat.map) f list

Regards,

	Martin

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