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I'm not sure about that. Scala's Option monad is just a class in the standard library, not a language feature. http://www.scala-lang.org/api/current/index.htm

• Mithaldu 13y ago
  I'll be honest, i have no idea what any of the stuff written on that page means. Can you show me the implementation of that class in pure Scala code?
  • saryant 13y ago
    Here's the implementation: https://github.com/scala/scala/blob/v2.10.3/src/library/scala/Option.scala#L1 https://github.com/scala/scala/blob/v2.10.3/src/library/scal... (FYI, many Scaladocs have links back to the code on Github)
    • Mithaldu 13y ago
      Alright, so it really is just a Scala class with some handy shortcuts. Please do note though that the docs you linked do not think it is a monad, just that it's easy to think of it as one. Edit: In fact, it kinda smells like how Perl works when you do this: no warnings 'undefined';
      • frowaway001 13y ago
        > Please do note though that the docs you linked do not think it is a monad, just that it's easy to think of it as one. Heh?