A different take on FirstOrDefault

Question

The IEnumerable extension method FirstOrDefault didn\'t exactly do as I wanted so I created FirstOrValue. Is this a good way to go about this or is there a better way?

Answer 1

default(T) will return null by default for reference types.

I would do this

public static T FirstOrValue(this IEnumerable source, Func predicate, T value)
{
    T first = source.FirstOrDefault(predicate);
    return first ?? value;
}