Lesson 22. Fixing the billion-dollar mistake
Hopefully, in the preceding lesson, you gained at least an initial appreciation of discriminated unions and how they allow you to quickly and easily model complex relationships. In this lesson, you’ll take a look at one specific discriminated union that’s built into F# and designed to solve a single problem: nothing! Or, more seriously, handling null values. You’ll learn about
- Dealing with absence-of-value situations in .NET today
- Working with optional data in F#
- Using helper F# functions to deal with common optional scenarios
22.1. Working with missing values
Imagine you’re reading a JSON document from a car insurer that contains information on a driver, including a safety rating that’s used to ...
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