either 0.2

Further Reading:

If you are unfamiliar with these concepts, here is some reading from around the web:

Either:

• [Tagged union (Wikipedia)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagged_union)

• [Either (Scala)](http://www.scala-lang.org/api/current/scala/Either.html)

• [Boost.Variant (C++)](http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_50_0/doc/html/variant.html)

• [Data.Either (Haskell)](http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/Data-Either.html)

• [std.variant (D)](http://dlang.org/phobos/std_variant.html)

Maybe:

• [Option (Scala)](http://www.scala-lang.org/api/current/scala/Option.html)

• [Maybe (Java)](https://github.com/npryce/maybe-java)

• [Maybe pattern (Python recipe)](http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577248-maybe-pattern/)

• [Data.Maybe (Haskell)](http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/Data-Maybe.html)

• [Maybe (Ruby)](https://github.com/bhb/maybe)

Contributors

• [Kenn Knowles](https://github.com/kennknowles) ([@kennknowles](https://twitter.com/KennKnowles))

Copyright and License

Copyright 2012- Kenneth Knowles

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