A brief apology of Ok-Wrapping
Posted on by woboats@gmail.com (boats)
I’ve long been a proponent of having some sort of syntax in Rust for writing functions which return results which “ok-wrap” the happy path. This is has also always been a feature with very vocal, immediate, and even emotional opposition from many of our most enthusiastic users. I want to write, in one place, why I think this feature would be awesome and make Rust much better. I don’t want to get into the details too much of the specific proposal, but here’s a sketch of one way this could work (there are a number of variables).