How about a new operator?

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Someone mentioned try already, but to elaborate, with the new desugar scheme I'm working on, that would be

let c = try { a?.b?.c }.unwrap_or(d);

(assuming d is not itself also an Option.)

I actually like that better than C#'s ?., because in C# that occasionally does something weird because it has a slightly-magic scope -- a?.b.Foo() and (a?.b).Foo() do something different, even though there's no precedence reason for the parens there. Having the block written directly in the form thus, I think, fits better for the Rust form.

But I would like to see Something for coalescing; aka generalized/improved `or_else`.

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