Yeah it's a bit inaccurate to say it's not supported. It just has edge case handling written explicitly into whatever thing you're building (I assume it's required to do so in order to be well-typed). It took this idea from Haskell, which might have gotten it from Miranda or something.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like the pattern a lot more. It makes you just initialize the value and only keep it 'nullable' for where it's needed and then you need to check. Even .net implemented it (but a bit more awkward)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yup. Programmers are really stupid, if the compiler forces us to explicitly handle weird situations that's a feature.

[–] lavafroth 3 points 1 year ago

*Laughs in Option*

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It also doesn't have throw/try/catch. If a function can fail, it returns a Result and you have to deal with the failure case explicitly.