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ragingHungryPanda@lemmy.zip ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

I actually disagree, because I’ve both seen it everywhere and I also work mainly in dotnet, and when I’ve talked to people about option and result types, the first inclination is to have a .Value, but that defeats the purpose. I’ve done quite a few code reviews where I was essentially saying “you know this will throw, right? Use .Match or .Map instead”.

I think the imperative programming backgrounds encourage this line of thinking, since one of the first questions I’ve gotten is “how do I get the value out of an Option? I’m 100% sure it’s there.” And often, surprise, it wasn’t.

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