I want to clarify BJ Myers’s (correct) answer. In C# an event can be thought of as a field of delegate type — just as a property can be thought of as a field of the property type — and the value of that “field” can be null. If you are in the unfortunate situation … Read more
Unity has a custom way to check inspector’s references against null. When a MonoBehaviour has fields, in the editor only[1], we do not set those fields to “real null”, but to a “fake null” object. Our custom == operator is able to check if something is one of these fake null objects, and behaves accordingly … Read more
In C# 6 you can use the Null Conditional Operator. So the original test will be: int? value = objectA?.PropertyA?.PropertyB?.PropertyC;
The null propagation operator returns a value. And since you must have a variable on the left hand side of an assignment, and not a value, you cannot use it in this way. Sure, you could make things shorter by using the tenary operator, but that, on the other hand, doesn’t really help the readability … Read more