Option from C# Try method

When working with C# APIs there are cases when I have an interface

public interface IValueGetter
{
    bool TryGetValue(out var myValue);
}

So I map it to option like

let optionFromTryGet = function
     | (true, x) -> Some x
     | _ -> None

let optValue = getter.TryGetValue() |> optionFromTryGet

I wonder if it can be generalized to Option extension in F#+. Something like Option.fromTry implemented as above helper function.

There are similar implementations already floating around on the internet. For example this one, which is dedicated to parsing: http://www.fssnip.net/2y/title/Functional-wrappers-for-TryParse-APIs

[3Rafal]

@gusty , I guess we can close it 😃

[3Rafal]

Also, this pattern was described by Scott Wlaschin here: https://swlaschin.gitbooks.io/fsharpforfunandprofit/content/posts/completeness-seamless-dotnet-interop.html

He uses couple of different methods with out variable and binds them to bool * 'a tuples. But, he doesn’t show that you have to pattern match on these tuples to use them. What I would like to do is to pipe them directly to Option monad, so that the handling is easier.