[ruby-core:68756] [Ruby trunk - Feature #11034] [Open] Nil Conditional

Issue #11034 has been reported by Grzegorz Bizon.

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Feature #11034: Nil Conditional
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/11034

* Author: Grzegorz Bizon
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
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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* is nil or doesn't exist):

~~~
var??.method1.method2(123, 345).method3 { |i| i == 1 }
=> nil
~~~

When *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* exists):

~~~
var.method1??.method2(a, b)
=> nil
~~~

When *var* exists and can receive *method1*, but *method1* returns nil - this shouldn return nil instead of raising  *NoMethodError: undefined method `method2' for nil:NilClass*

When *var* exists and is not nil, and can receive *method1*, and object returned by *method1* can receive *method2* this, of course should behave as expected (like version without *??* operator) and return value according to implementation of method2.

When *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




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