Possible to overload null-coalescing operator?

Question

Is it possible to overload the null-coalescing operator for a class in C#?

Say for example I want to return a default value if an instance is null and return the i

Answer 1

According to the ECMA-334 standard, it is not possible to overload the ?? operator.

Similarly, you cannot overload the following operators:

• =
• &&
• ||
• ?:
• ?.
• checked
• unchecked
• new
• typeof
• as
• is