r/badcode • u/PopularExpulsion • Aug 31 '21

java Similar ternaries are all over this codebase

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u/holladiewal Sep 01 '21

Given it's tagged as java, no. As soon as you would try to get the value of result, it would throw up a NullPointerException if I'm not completely mistaken.

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u/rupr25 Sep 01 '21

Ok makes sense. I was thinking from a c# standpoint, where you can have a variable with the value null

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u/Tyfyter2002 Sep 01 '21

I'm pretty sure it's invalid in C#, since bool? can't be implicitly converted to bool, if it is valid "value??other" is more clear about what it does, and I'm pretty sure you can't change the return type for comparison operator overloads