I think I see what you want now. In order to get the value out, you'd have to use pattern matching or a type guard or something, inside of which you'd know the

I think I see what you want now. In order to get the value out, you'd have to use pattern matching or a type guard or something, inside of which you'd know there was a value. That makes sense to me too. But compared to Maybe, a null-safe member accessing operator, along with null-lifted operators seems nearly as good from my point of view.