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We had a lengthy discussion recently during code review whether scala.Option.fold() is idiomatic and clever or maybe unreadable and tricky? Let’s first describe what the problem is. Option.fold does two things: maps a function f over Option‘s value (if any) or returns an alternative alt if it’s absent. Using simple pattern matching we can implement […]