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Option Result library for c# (programming.dev)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by DrDeadCrash@programming.dev to c/csharp@programming.dev

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A collection of tools for dealing with nulls, failures and the generic type issues that arise in this domain.

https://github.com/Andy3432344/SafeResults

I'm the author, let me know what you think!

*Edit: updated to show GitHub link, sorry!

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[–] DrDeadCrash@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago

I very much disagree with this, Null Reference Exceptions have been a huge problem in c#. Nullable reference types are a partial fix, but the question of "how do I 'return' an error from a statically typed method" is not answered there.