Is there an “opposite” to the null coalescing operator? (…in any language?)
问题 null coalescing translates roughly to return x, unless it is null, in which case return y I often need return null if x is null, otherwise return x.y I can use return x == null ? null : x.y; Not bad, but that null in the middle always bothers me -- it seems superfluous. I'd prefer something like return x :: x.y; , where what follows the :: is evaluated only if what precedes it is not null . I see this as almost an opposite to null coalescence, kind of mixed in with a terse, inline null-check,