alt Hacker NewsStill, enabling ?. Access on the left side of the equals (assigning) feels like a serious anti pattern to me
I struggle to even see how anyone would prefer that over an explicit if before assigning.
Having that on the right side (attribute reference) is great, but that was already available as far as I understood the post...
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As someone who comes from a language with no ? (or equivalent) who only dabbles in C#, it actually seemed a little weird to me that this was one of the contexts where it wasn't usable.
So as a casual observer, I'd say it brings more consistency.
But also as a casual observer, my opinion is low-value.
The point the article is trying to make is that it reduces boilerplate, wouldn't be surprised if this gets added to TS in the next year of two.
Without it there's some silly inconsistency. For example I could call `person?.SetName(name)`, but if you wanted to refactor that into `person?.Name = name` you can't.