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Giving Sisyphus a Hand: How to Improve OOP with Functional Principles

Yet another rant about object-oriented programming, but mainly a collection of ideas stolen from functional programming to improve it.

	/**
	* Lightweight implementation of the famous `Maybe` type that safely wraps
	* optional values without using `null` references.
	*
	* Add this file to your project and get three new namespaces:
	* - `Option`: the base type, factories, operators (map, bind, filter, tap,
	* flatten), and means to get the contained value.
	* - `Option.Extras`: some utility functions like `IEnumerable.FirstOrNone()`,
	* combinators (and, or, ...), and maybe-ready `TryParse` functions.
	* - `Option.Async`: async variants of the operators so you can bind against

	// This needs to be executed multiple times, because it will crash with an out of memory exception.
	// Once an assembly has been loaded with `Assembly.LoadFile()`, it cannot be unloaded again. The
	// +10K DLLs to load will eat up all your memory, but the script will resume at the DLL that
	// crashed the process, when it is restarted.
	void Main() {
	// Adjust those paths.
	var resultStore = @"C:\Users\bert\Desktop\vs-style-baml-files.txt";
	var lastFileStore = @"C:\Users\bert\Desktop\vs-baml-files.last.txt";

	// Make sure this file exists (empty).