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Re:What's New in C# 14: Null-Conditional Assignments by ffsm8 on Thursday September 18, 2025 @03:03AM (#45286460)
That's a great point I didn't think about. From that perspective, it does make sense.

Maybe my feeling is just rooted in the fact I've never used a language which allowed ?. on assignment

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Re:What's New in C# 14: Null-Conditional Assignments by moomin on Thursday September 18, 2025 @03:27AM (#45286623)
My take is that it’s pretty minor. Modern C# has across the board null checking and for the most part you’re not designing things where this even comes up. You are, however, correct, in that I have 100% seen the ?SetName thing used by devs who just wanted to make the null checker go away and didn’t actually think about what the correct behaviour was.
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