Cached Property: Easier way?

Question

I have a object with properties that are expensive to compute, so they are only calculated on first access and then cached.

 private List notes;
         


        

Answer 1

As far as syntax goes, you can use the null-coalescing operator if you want to be fancy, but it's not necessarily as readable.

get
{
    return notes ?? (notes = CalcNotes());
}

Edit: Updated courtesy of Matthew. Also, I think the other answers are more helpful to the question asker!