Hands-On Design Patterns with Kotlin

The map() function

One of the most well known higher-order functions on collections is map().

Let's say you have a function that receives a list of strings and returns a new list of the same size containing each string concatenated to itself:

val letters = listOf("a", "b", "c", "d")println(repeatAll(letters)) // [aa, bb, cc, dd]

The task is quite trivial:

fun repeatAll(letters: List<String>): MutableList<String> {    val repeatedLetters = mutableListOf<String>()    for (l in letters) {        repeatedLetters.add(l + l)    }    return repeatedLetters}

But for such a trivial task, we had to write quite a lot of code. What would we have to change in order to capitalize each string instead of repeating it twice? We would like to change only this line:

repeatedLetters.add(l ...