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Ah, true. Thanks.
Theoretically, it was supposed to be pseudo-code, secretly inspired by Rust, but I did get that one mixed up.
And I am actually even a fan of the word
unwrap
there, because it follows a schema and you can have your IDE auto-complete all the things you can do with anOption
.In many of these other languages, you just get weird collections of symbols which you basically have to memorize and which only cover rather specific uses.