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From: Raoul Duke <raould@gmail.com>
To: Oliver Bandel <oliver@first.in-berlin.de>
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Subject: re: [Caml-list] option-type (was Re: We need a rich standard
 library distributed with OCaml, really)

> It started me thinking about my code, seeing option-type not as
> something strange, that sometimes makes sense, but as something,
> which is really great and might be used more frequently ...

yikes.

here's hoping the dev world takes it to heart *some day* :-(

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hoare#cite_note-19