An attempt to implement in Java the challenge proposed by Tony Morris on his blog (http://blog.tmorris.net/posts/debut-with-a-catamorphism/index.html).
Given a base structure and the catamorphism concept, you are asked to implement the following MyOption contract.
trait MyOption[+A] {
// single abstract method
def cata[X](some: A => X, none: => X): X
def map[B](f: A => B): MyOption[B] = error("todo")
def flatMap[B](f: A => MyOption[B]): MyOption[B] = error("todo")
def getOrElse[AA >: A](e: => AA): AA = error("todo")
def filter(p: A => Boolean): MyOption[A] = error("todo")
def foreach(f: A => Unit): Unit = error("todo")
def isDefined: Boolean = error("todo")
def isEmpty: Boolean = error("todo")
// WARNING: not defined for None
def get: A = error("todo")
def orElse[AA >: A](o: MyOption[AA]): MyOption[AA] = error("todo")
def toLeft[X](right: => X): Either[A, X] = error("todo")
def toRight[X](left: => X): Either[X, A] = error("todo")
def toList: List[A] = error("todo")
def iterator: Iterator[A] = error("todo")
}