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An Oddity of the ?? Operator (C#)

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20 Jan 2022CPOL2 min read 14.4K   4  
The ?? operator is odd when combined with exceptions - It helps assignments but not non-assignments. Why?
This is a "quick complaint" of a feature that I consider very annoying which Visual Studio is trying to make us use, when the feature isn't really making code more readable, it is just making it "more compact" in just half the situations.

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I started to program computers when I was 11 years old, as a hobbyist, programming in AMOS Basic and Blitz Basic for Amiga.
At 12 I had my first try with assembler, but it was too difficult at the time. Then, in the same year, I learned C and, after learning C, I was finally able to learn assembler (for Motorola 680x0).
Not sure, but probably between 12 and 13, I started to learn C++. I always programmed "in an object oriented way", but using function pointers instead of virtual methods.

At 15 I started to learn Pascal at school and to use Delphi. At 16 I started my first internship (using Delphi). At 18 I started to work professionally using C++ and since then I've developed my programming skills as a professional developer in C++ and C#, generally creating libraries that help other developers do their work easier, faster and with less errors.

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