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I love this feature, but it's not quite the Maybe Monad, which lets you assemble a sequence of (possibly failing) statements together, and fail the whole sequen

by nardi 12y ago

I love this feature, but it's not quite the Maybe Monad, which lets you assemble a sequence of (possibly failing) statements together, and fail the whole sequence if any of the parts fails (without if-statements or switching of any kind).

anon1385 12y ago
'Optional Chaining' sounds like it lets you join thing together to some extent: https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/documentation/Swift/Conceptual/Swift_Programming_Language/OptionalChaining.html https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/documenta...
- nardi 12y ago
  Oh, cool! Straight out of CoffeeScript. Yeah, that's pretty much the monad instance of Maybe.