title: Could/should an implicit conversion from T to Option[T] be added/created in Scala?
body: <p>Is this an opportunity to make things a bit more efficient (for the prorammer): I find it gets a bit tiresome having to wrap things in <code>Some</code>, e.g. <code>Some(5)</code>.  What about something like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>implicit def T2OptionT( x : T) : Option[T] = if ( x == null ) None else Some(x)
  </code></pre>