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billmcneale • today at 12:05 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

> if (customer?.Profile is not null) >{ > // Null-coalescing (??) > customer.Profile.Avatar = request.Avatar ?? "./default-avatar.jpg"; >}

Isn't this over engineered? Why not allow the assignment but do nothing if any of the intermediate objects is null (that's how Kotlin does it).

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LelouBil • today at 12:11 AM

That's what's new in c#14, it allows you to do

    customer?.Profile?.Avatar = "thing"
And will do nothing if the left hand side is null (not throw a null reference exception anymore)