From 9b6ae8cb8fc68eeedd725515d4bdd77754914056 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Gold <david.gold.a@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2016 01:47:27 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Fix issues noted in 18484 (#18824)

---
 doc/stdlib/base.rst | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/stdlib/base.rst b/doc/stdlib/base.rst
index e5d002b5baed5..435c662775994 100644
--- a/doc/stdlib/base.rst
+++ b/doc/stdlib/base.rst
@@ -854,6 +854,35 @@ Nullables
        julia> isnull(x)
        false
 
+.. function:: unsafe_get(x)
+
+   .. Docstring generated from Julia source
+
+   Return the value of ``x`` for :obj:`Nullable` ``x``\ ; return ``x`` for all other ``x``\ .
+
+   This method does not check whether or not ``x`` is null before attempting to access the value of ``x`` for ``x::Nullable`` (hence "unsafe").
+
+   .. doctest::
+
+       julia> x = Nullable(1)
+       Nullable{Int64}(1)
+
+       julia> unsafe_get(x)
+       1
+
+       julia> x = Nullable{String}()
+       Nullable{String}()
+
+       julia> unsafe_get(x)
+       ERROR: UndefRefError: access to undefined reference
+        in unsafe_get(::Nullable{String}) at ./REPL[4]:1
+
+       julia> x = 1
+       1
+
+       julia> unsafe_get(x)
+       1
+
 System
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