Option types and pattern matching.

[Kagamin via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 27 October 2015 at 15:06:07 UTC, TheFlyingFiddle 
wrote:
> The reason that I prefer that is not that I like the syntax 
> really. It's just that if the only way to get a value is to 
> pattern match on it then you are forced to consider the case 
> where the value was not there.

If pattern matching is the only way, the get function above will 
still work: it uses only pattern matching, nothing else.