Feature #11034
Updated by nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada) about 9 years ago
Hi everyone ! Some time ago I was thinking about Nil Conditional Operator in Ruby (`??`). (*??*). This would be particularly useful to avoid frequent checking for nil, and should behave and look like Null Conditional Operator introduced in C# 6.0. I was thinking about something like this (assume `var` *var* is nil or doesn't exist): ~~~ruby ~~~ var??.method1.method2(123, 345).method3 { |i| i == 1 } => nil ~~~ When `var` *var* is nil or doesn't exist, code above should return nil or NilConditionalClass object instead of raising NoMethodError or NameError. This can also work with methods (assume `var` *var* exists): ~~~ruby ~~~ var.method1??.method2(a, b) => nil ~~~ When `var` *var* exists and can receive `method1`, *method1*, but `method1` *method1* returns nil - this shouldn return nil instead of raising `NoMethodError: *NoMethodError: undefined method `method2' for nil:NilClass` nil:NilClass* When `var` *var* exists and is not nil, and can receive `method1`, *method1*, and object returned by `method1` *method1* can receive `method2` *method2* this, of course should behave as expected (like version without `??` *??* operator) and return value according to implementation of method2. When `var` *var* doesn't exist - this should raise NameError. I tried to create gem for that (https://github.com/grzesiek/nil-conditional) but from now on, only native implementation seems reasonable. What do you think about that feature ? Maybe it is already considered, but I couldn't find anything similar at Google/this issue tracker (in that case I'm sorry for duplicate). Thanks in advance for feedback ! Kind regards, Grzegorz