'I couldn't look' is not 'there is nothing'

Option made absence a value and stopped the compiler from letting you use it as presence. But Option is still binary: Some and None are both answers. The missing state — 'I couldn't look' — has a canonical spelling in Rust, and almost no system keeps it once it leaves the compiler for a script. This is about that ladder, and about a case where the bottom rung cost a false green.