add Option.ofNull to help remove nulls

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add Option.ofNull to help remove nulls [6103054]

Submitted by Cameron Taggart on 6/26/2014 12:00:00 AM
13 votes on UserVoice prior to migration

Many APIs and types support the use of null. To help remove null and promote the use of option, It would be good to add a standard function that can be used to wrap nullable types.
May be something like:
type Option<'A> with
static member ofNull (t:'T when 'T : null) = function
| null -> None
| x -> Some x
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24418816/in-the-f-api-is-there-something-like-option-ofnull

Response

** by fslang-admin on 1/21/2015 12:00:00 AM **

Completed for F# 4.0, see https://visualfsharp.codeplex.com/SourceControl/network/forks/dsyme/cleanup/contribution/7672
Don Syme, F# Language/Library Evolution

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