scala.util.Try introduced in Scala 2.10, encapsulate either a result or an exception (specifically a Throwable ) In Haskell, Either is a monad , with fmap and bind applying the function to the right side, return returning the right side Discussed Git cherry-pick sometimes trying to be “too smart” or merging “too much”, but we don’t know exactly what the problem let alone the solution is Would like to move the Orbeon documentation from Google Sites to GitHub Pages, for which we would need to convert HTML to Markdown; many tools do this, e.g. Brett Terpstra has Python code for converting HTML to Markdown