问题 I have lately been dipping my feet into the fascinating world of functional programming, largely due to gaining experience in FP platforms like React and reading up on blogs the likes of https://blog.ploeh.dk/. As a primarily imperative programmer, this has been an interesting transition, but I am still trying to get my wet feet under me. I am getting a little tired of using string.IsNullOrEmpty as such. So much of the time I find myself littering my code with expressions such as _ = string