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nuget.org : callmemaybe
Provides a class and a few extension methods to facilitate common operations with values that may or may not exist. Traditionally, programmers often use `null` references to represent values that "aren't there", but the problem is that this was never their intended purpose. - Languages like C# don't provide a way to differentiate between reference variables that can be null and those that are guaranteed not to be. - The inventor of null references has [apologized](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hoare#Quotations) for creating them in the first place, calling them his "billion-dollar mistake." - This misuse of null references has spread far and wide, leading to the unfortunately-named `Nullable<>` type (which, being a value type, is never actually null), and attributes like `[CanBeNull]` and `[NotNull]` to help programmers know when they can expect a method to treat a null value as legitimate input. All this leaves us in a position where our best hope of avoiding `NullReferenceException`s lies in trying to make sure that our reference variables are *never* null. But in that case, how do we indicate when a value is *optional*? Well, that's where `Maybe<>` comes in.
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purl: pkg:nuget/callmemaybe
Keywords: maybe, monad, option, optional, csharp
License: MIT
Latest release: over 5 years ago
First release: over 124 years ago
Dependent packages: 1
Downloads: 36,348 total
Stars: 6 on GitHub
Forks: 2 on GitHub
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