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When I have an Option<Result<T, E>> but need a Result<Option<T>, E> (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Care to explain for the uninitiated like me? It feels like a meme, but conceptually an Option is very different from a Result, maybe I'm overthinking but to me an Option None means no action was taken (e.g. a function that runs every loop to take an action every second will return None most times and Some when it executes), whereas an Ok(None) means an action was taken and it has nothing to return (e.g. a function that safely reads a value from a JSON file, it didn't failed reading the file so it's an Ok, but the value wasn't there so it's None).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

You can use transpose() to go from Option<Result<T>> to Result<Option<T>> and vice versa.

The "meme" is a trans pride flag and a human pose.

[–] howrar 5 points 21 hours ago

Ah, so a trans pose.

Nice.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

It's just a "joke" about the method name.