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Thank you very much, I'm definitely going to take this for a spin! Can I ask if you or someone you know uses this? I'm curious what the experience is like and if theres any downfalls.
mostly the
Resulttype.MustGetwhere you'd except a panicOrElseto pass a fallback value (can be a function with return value of the same type, as the inner function, but without an error). Useful in e.g. more complex constructors where some fields might not be readily available.Eithercan for instance be useful to have arbitrary type unions in structs. I haven't usedOptionthat much but seems similar to Rust's.A simple example:
While it might not make much sense for a function you use just once, it can get actually pretty useful to simplify error handling like this for something you use more often.