Scala: Boolean to Option

Question

I have a Boolean and would like to avoid this pattern:

if (myBool) 
  Option(someResult) 
else 
  None

What I\'d like to do is

Answer 1

Scalaz has a way to do it with BooleanOps.option. That would allow you to write :

myBool.option(someResult)

If you don't want to add a Scalaz dependency, just add the following in your code :

implicit class RichBoolean(val b: Boolean) extends AnyVal {
  final def option[A](a: => A): Option[A] = if (b) Some(a) else None
}