How use `Option.get` as an function together with pipe-CodePudding

Is there a way I could replace the myOptionGet function by an build-in Scala function, but without making the code more verbose...? :) and with keeping the function chaining with pipe.

Replacing by Option.get doesn't work as I found out.

package playground

import scala.util.chaining.scalaUtilChainingOps

object TEST123 {

  def main(args: Array[String]): Unit = {

    def myOptionGet[T](x: Option[T]): T = x.get

    Some("abc") pipe
      myOptionGet pipe
      println

    // prints: abc

  }
}

CodePudding user response：

Yes, the code can be made less verbose by using a lambda:

Some("abc") pipe
  ((o: Option[String]) => o.get) pipe
  println

or even shorter with a placeholder:

Some("abc") pipe
  (_.get) pipe
  println

However, as @cchantep pointed out in a comment, you should never use .get because it's unsafe. You should either keep the Option type to denote that the value might not exist (this is the safe variant of Java's null pointer technique), or alternatively, if you have a sensible default value, use myOption.getOrElse("N/A").