Why is foreach better than get for Scala Options?

Question

Why using foreach, map, flatMap etc. are considered better than using get for Scala Options? If I useisEmpty I c

Answer 1

One nice reason to use foreach is parsing something with nested options. If you have something like

val nestedOption = Some(Some(Some(1)))
for {
  opt1 <- nestedOption
  opt2 <- opt1
  opt3 <- opt2
} println(opt3)

The console prints 1. If you extend this to a case where you have a class that optionally stores a reference to something, which in turn stores another reference, for comprehensions allow you to avoid a giant "pyramid" of None/Some checking.