safe navigation operators

A form of safe navigation operator — A binary operator that returns its second argument, unless the first argument is null, in which case it returns null; used to simplify code that would otherwise need multiple explicit checks for nullity.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of safe navigation operator
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