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monsieurluge/optional
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Optional-oriented objects

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Optional
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[](#optional)

[![logo](logo.png)](logo.png)

The goal of the Optional library is to handle elegantly optional parameters in order to avoid control structures like `if` or `switch`, and to avoid multiple return types.

The code also becomes more declarative.

Examples
--------

[](#examples)

### Sending user data to a template

[](#sending-user-data-to-a-template)

Context: We want to display user data but the phone number is an optional one.

#### As usually seen

[](#as-usually-seen)

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