Edaqa Mortoray @mortoray@peoplemaking.games
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This is an unexpected bug in my code. I didn't realize that C#'s nullish operator isn't a null chaining operator.

In JavaScript, this code is correct:

(colorChip?.ranks.Length ?? 0)

In C# it's wrong, since it evaluates to

((colorChip?.ranks).Length ?? 0)

Instead of nulling out the whole chain. Thus here, if `colorChip` is null, I get a null pointer error.

I can't understand why C# uses this approach. I don't see a situation in which it's beneficial.

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