Comment by kibwen

I used to think this too, but nowadays I think this would have been a mistake. Result is actually the more important and fundamental type, not Option, and giving Option special syntax would cause people to want to favor it over Result even when it shouldn't be. If anything, I think that `?` should have been reserved as a suffix for function names (not types) that return Result, so that instead of `fn try_foo()` and `let x = try_foo();` we could have `fn foo?()` and `let x = foo?();`, and then the current `?` operator could just be spelled `.try`, akin to `.await`. (And then we maybe could go further and reserve `!` as a suffix for functions that can panic...)