No, you just are forced to use methods like foo.UnwrapOr(default_value) to get the Result. Or depending on the language, you get a compile error if you don't ha

No, you just are forced to use methods like foo.UnwrapOr(default_value) to get the Result. Or depending on the language, you get a compile error if you don't handle both possible values of the Result enum in a switch statement or if/else clause. See for example https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/result/enum.Result.html#method.unwrap_or_default https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/result/enum.Result.html#method... in rust, https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/Optional.html#orElse-T- https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/Optional... in Java, and https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/utility/optional/value_or https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/utility/optional/value_or in C++.