In this post I present several examples of the new Optional objects in Java 8 and I make comparisons with similar approaches in other programming languages, particularly the functional programming language SML and the JVM-based programming language Ceylon, this latter currently under development by Red Hat. I think it is important to highlight that the introduction of optional objects has been a
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