Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

safe navigation operator

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.82 in modern English

Syllables: safe -nav-i-ga-tion -op-er-a-tor
IPA

31

Scrabble Score

22

Letters

9

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A binary operator that returns its second argument, unless the first argument is null, in which case it returns null; used to simplify code that would otherwise need multiple explicit checks for nullity.

Example Sentences

"One operator I haven't talked about yet is the safe navigation operator (?.). By preceding a dot with a question mark, you can safely navigate to methods or properties of an object even if that object is null."
"The safe navigation operator (?.) provides navigation on the nested properties without getting any exception when a null value is evaluated from any of the properties iterated."
"C# 6 introduced a cascading nulls operator, also called the null-conditional operator and the safe navigation operator."

Inflected Forms

safe navigation operators (plural)

Questions

What does safe navigation operator mean?: A binary operator that returns its second argument, unless the first argument is null, in which case it returns null; used to simplify code that would otherwise need multiple explicit checks for nullity.

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