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		closetnerd on Feb 21, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Scala's Option monad versus null-conditional opera... You can tell that "_.author" is a parameterless lambda?

Filligree on Feb 21, 2016 [–]

Um, no? It takes one parameter.

Wouldn't fit into the map type signature otherwise.

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