Generics will let you define an Option[any], just hope that your code reviewers don't decide that this isn't goey, and you should "keep it simple" or "just use

Generics will let you define an Option[any], just hope that your code reviewers don't decide that this isn't goey, and you should "keep it simple" or "just use a pointer" or something in that vein. There won't be overloading * for getting the value inside and overloading bool conversion to check if the value is there. Still, it's an improvement.