[OT] Some neat ideas from the Kotlin language

[Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d]

On 2016-02-19 13:28, Nemanja Boric wrote:

> IMHO, without language support looks really bad - `map` really sticks
> out here.
>
> What Rust is doing:
>
> ```
> let foo: Option<i32> = bar();
>
> let new_stuff = match foo {
>     Some(x) => x,
>     None => 0
> }
> ```

You can do the same in Scala, it has built-in pattern matching. Although 
I think the map approach is preferred, but I'm not a Scala expert.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg