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== Code ==

object Foo {
   // this is overly verbose
   def getInt(s : String) = try {
     s.toInt
   } catch {
     case e : NumberFormatException => 0
   }

   // I'd much rather write this
   def getInt2(s : String) = s.toInt(0)
}

== What happened ==

n/a

== What expected ==

To be able to optionally provide a default value for string-to-primitive conversion methods, much like Option.get.