Regex.MatchData returning null: why not Option[String]?
问题 Is there any particular reason why Regex.MatchData.group(i: Int): java.lang.String returns null rather than Option[String]? Is there a "Scala Way" to handle nulls in Scala? 回答1: It returns null because it is a shallow interface over the Java library. I think it sucks too, and I have been bitten by it. If you get a value that may be null, you can write Option(value) on Scala 2.8 and it will become either None or Some(value) . That doesn't work with pattern matching, but you can write your own