I don't like this… Is this cheating the language?

Question

I have seen something like the following a couple times... and I hate it. Is this basically \'cheating\' the language? Or.. would you consider this to be \'ok\' because the IsNu

Answer 1

This code is totally valid, but I like to use the Null Coalesce Operator for avoid null type checks.

string someString = MagicFunction() ?? string.Empty;
if (someString.Length > 3)
{
    // normal string, do whatever
}
else
{
   // NULL strings will be converted to Length = 0 and will end up here.
}