Options - F# missing convert to other types

[naxels]

Type of issue

Missing information

Description

Hi team,

Thank you for the details documentation on the Options in F#.

As a beginner, I did find some information missing that would be very valuable for converting Option to another type.
where other documentation would go straight into Pattern Matching Some/None,
F# also has a handy build-in function Option.defaultValue (as referenced here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/39436459)

A little expansion of the "Converting to Other Types" section of the documentation with for example:

String and Int

would already help with the following guided code:

optionString |> Option.defaultValue ""
optionInt |> Option.defaultValue 0

Thank you for consideration!

Page URL

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fsharp/language-reference/options

Content source URL

https://github.com/dotnet/docs/blob/main/docs/fsharp/language-reference/options.md

Document Version Independent Id

431e250a-3588-7741-dd43-8021d6c7ffa8

Article author

@KathleenDollard

Metadata

• ID: ed1e23a2-091b-38be-3bbe-b3b38aa06aa5
• Service: dotnet-fsharp

[shethaadit]

Hi @BillWagner, I will work on this and raise PR soon. Could you please assign this issue to myself? :)