ebiggs

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Like java, javascript is optimized for throwing null pointer exceptions
coffeescript helps with its series of ? operators
but here is a scala option-eqsue "maybe monad" when such semantics
are preferred over the ? operators or when you want your data
to self-document its indefinite-ness (regular vars don't warn you
that you may get null or undefined!).

note that we're perfectly happy to give you a Some(null) or a Some(undefined)
just like scala. if you have an x that you want to fmap to None if it's