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 Requires [Catch](https://github.com/philsquared/Catch) for testing. This is bundled in the test directory.
 
+### Standards Proposal
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+This library also serves as an implementation of WG21 standards paper [P0798R0: Monadic operations for std::optional](https://wg21.tartanllama.xyz/monadic-optional). This paper proposes adding `map`, `and_then`, and `or_else` to `std::optional`.
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