[jfoutz]

> You're just duplicating the validation logic (or worse, the "objects creation" assumes it's given valid names and does no checks)

I think the right way to do it is with a fold.

[masklinn]

In Haskell you'd use `mapMaybe :: (a -> Maybe b) -> [a] -> [b]`[0], it's a combined map+filter+map specialised for Maybe (option types). Rust has Iterator::filter_map[1] which does more or less the same thing.

[0] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.9.0.0/docs/Data-Ma...

[1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/iter/trait.Iterator.html#metho...