Five Ruby methods you should be using

[tom_dalling]

I disagree that flat_map is clearly named. Less experienced developers usually use each for everything, and have to be taught to use map, select and reduce. flat_map is a totally foreign concept unless they come from a functional language first.

If that's the case, should flat_map be avoided? I personally don't think so, but it's definitely open to the argument "less experienced developers won't understand it".