The other day I ran into a usage of the null conditional operator (added in C# 6) that made me realize that we can get our terseness on in some additional situations.

Instead of having to do a thing like this to ensure no nulls:

var thing = someParameter != null && someProperty.subProperty != null && someSubProperty.subPropCollection != null
  ? someParameter.subProperty.subPropCollection
  : new List<string>();

We can just do it like this:

var thing = someProperty?.subProperty?.subPropCollection ?? new List<string>();

Go forth and do good with this newfound information!

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