TIL: Rust Option Methods

Today I learned about some lesser-known Option methods in Rust that can make code cleaner:

• Option::inspect() - Run a closure on the value if Some, useful for logging
• Option::filter() - Convert Some(x) to None if predicate returns false
• Option::zip() - Combine two Options into Option<(A, B)>

let x = Some(5);
x.inspect(|v| println!("Value: {v}"))
 .filter(|v| *v > 3)
 .zip(Some("hello"))

These are great for building pipelines without early returns!