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Comment by serpix | Hacker News Reader

If you are certain optional has a value, don't use optional.

Checking presence of value of an optional is an anti-pattern, the same as doing != null checks.

You should treat Optional the same as a List type with size 1. You never check if a list is size 1 before doing map or filter.

I'm not always own code. Simple example:

    getCharsetOpt("UTF-8")

There is no way this code will return None in this particular case. So any additional checks are unnecessary and make code less readable.

I don't know who said it, and this is probably a paraphrase:

"If it can't happen, it will".

If a function says the result is optional, then it's optional. It's not not optional because you decided it can't ever fail.