@toast@donotsta.re i don't think many people see Option and Result as a Monad, not least because they (and i) have no clue what a monad is. (and tbh i'm not keen on finding out either)

@toast@donotsta.re as i said, i don't think many rust programmers know what that is.

what are you trying to do anyway?

@Johann150@genau.qwertqwefsday.eu I have an Option<a> and I want to call a fn(a) -> b on it.
If the Option<a> is None, the result should be none.
The operation of taking an fn(a) and making it work on an Option<a> is called a "monadic lift", and it's the whole purpose of having this kind of "wrapper type" to begin with, it's meant to be one of the most basic operations.
What I'm having to do is a .and_then with an extra wrapper lambda which actually returns an Option anyway (rendering the point of it kind of moot)

@toast@donotsta.re so what you want to do is modify the value inside the Option? have you tried using map?

@toast@donotsta.re in my experience option and result have lots of functions that do similar things so its a bit confusing. sometimes i ended up searching for the call signature instead of the name to find what i wanted