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Downsides of Using andThen Instead of flatMap or map in Effect - Effect Community
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11mo ago
ryan
Downsides of Using andThen Instead of flatMap or map in Effect
I
'm curious if there are any downsides to using andThen instead of flatMap or map
? I see it has to decodeUnknownPromise
` and stuff
.
https://effect.website/play#97b8e46eeb2c
Wrote a little playground with comments for feedback as we were looking through it and couldn
't really grok why some worked
/ didnt
/ how it changed things
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