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earenndil on Feb 5, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: C# Pattern Matching

why not add an operator so you can say (x !is null)?

gregoryl on Feb 5, 2020 [–]

Largely because (x is null) is a silly workaround to an uncommon and easily avoided problem (bad operator overloading).

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