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I didn't want to have to explain a bunch of types that aren't built into JavaScript.

Promise.then is actually both the map and flatmap interface which I think makes using it for the explanation confusing

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There is a section on Maybe which has chain/flatmap used. Maybe it's worth linking from the monad section

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Promise.then is actually both the map and flatmap interface which I think makes using it for the explanation confusing

I didn't know that. Worth to mention that fact.

When onFulfilled returns promise (generally "thenable" object) then then works as flatMap, If returned value is not promise then it works as map.

Links: https://promisesaplus.com/, https://gist.github.com/briancavalier/3296186

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We've added the name aliases for chain. I'm not comfortable saying that then is equivalent to map. I think we should add a section on Future/Promise/Task to explain the functor aspects of those types.

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