From fc0bf125168ec3df75bc57c250a62d3ea225a546 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marijn Haverbeke <marijnh@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:47:39 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Make option::get return the option contents by reference

I can't believe this actually works!
---
 src/lib/option.rs | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/lib/option.rs b/src/lib/option.rs
index c10c22ae18d..53c19ba8c0a 100644
--- a/src/lib/option.rs
+++ b/src/lib/option.rs
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 
 tag t<@T> { none; some(T); }
 
-fn get<@T>(opt: t<T>) -> T {
-    alt opt { some(x) { x } none. { fail "option none" } }
+fn get<@T>(opt: t<T>) -> &T {
+    alt opt { some(x) { ret x; } none. { fail "option none"; } }
 }
 
 fn map<@T, @U>(f: block(T) -> U, opt: t<T>) -> t<U> {