Ok so Can is not either an Either or an Option, its a Can. I kind of  
wondered when I first used Can, and it was described as an enhanced  
Option,  why it wasn't called something like Option+ with None, Some  
and Failure.

On 21/12/2008, at 5:47 AM, David Pollak wrote:

> Can has map, flatMap, filter etc. So it can be used in a for  
> comphrension.  I don't believe Either has those methods. Further,  
> Can has a bunch of helpers to turn Empty into Failure
>
>
> On Dec 20, 2008 10:33 AM, "Oliver Lambert" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Is Can a little less like Option and more like scala.Either, where  
> the left side is used to indicate failure?
> On 21/12/2008, at 1:43 AM, David Pollak wrote: > Folks, > > Over the  
> year that Lift has had Can[T...
>
> >


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