The as Operator
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The as Operator
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Re: The as Operator
#2Hmm. The article says that the as operator is the same as casting, which is not correct. Casting will result in an exception if coercion fails, where as 'as' will return a null reference.
Which makes the code example
(foo as Bar).Method();
Edit: punctuated for clarity.
Re: The as Operator
#3Hmm. The article says that the as operator is the same as casting, which is not correct. Casting will result in an exception if coercion fails, where as 'as' will return a null reference. Which makes the code example (foo as Bar).Method(); dangerous without a guard. Edit: punctuated for clarity.
You can always use the null coalescing operator.
(foo as Bar ?? new Bar()).Method();