This is not really pattern matching, that’s just a regular old if-else. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35133670 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3513

This is not really pattern matching, that’s just a regular old if-else. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35133670 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35133670 This is absolutely possible in Java and the only less-than-ideal part is the generic type having to be specified in the None case (but a trivial method fixes that as well) This can be used just like rust and similar languages: switch (option) { case Some(var x) -> println(x); case None -> // TODO } Hell, you can just further pattern match inside Some, like `Some(Point(var x, var y))`