On Tuesday, 21 April 2020 at 16:30:15 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
On Mon, 2020-04-20 at 20:19 +0000, aliak via
Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
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[0]: https://github.com/aliak00/optional
Rust has Option and Result, and most languages are rapidly
introducing at least Option if not Result – and yes it is
almost certain all this comes from Haskell.
Yeah it's a great abstraction that's part of modern languages
now. Some static languages are even building syntax for it right
in (e.g. swift, kotlin, v, zig - to name a few).
There've been a few attempts at building a Result type:
https://code.dlang.org/search?q=expect
And here:
https://github.com/aliak00/ddash/blob/master/utils/source/ddash/utils/expect.d
Is Option intended for adding to Phobos?
Not that I am aware of. There was an attempt to PR an Option type
way back when which never made it:
https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pull/3915
There was a post here:
https://forum.dlang.org/thread/[email protected]
