API: map & grep

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map and grep are two utilities that are extremely useful if you know how to use them, but more often that not, I see more convoluted code written to achieve the effect of these functions.

Historically, I believe that John Resig was inspired by the Perl functions of the same name - which are basic building blocks of the Perl programming language. Let’s look at how you can use these functions.