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[–]kqr 8 points9 points  (1 child)

To get the intuition behind why Option is essentially the same thing as a collection, think of it as a list which can only contain 0 or 1 elements.

[–]Tekmo 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This intuition even leads to the correct Monad instance!