In your opinion what is more readable: ?? (operator) or use of if's

Question

I have a method that will receive a string, but before I can work with it, I have to convert it to int. Sometimes it can be null and I ha

Answer 1

I definitely prefer the null coalesce operator (??) over a series of if statements. Especially when you need to coalesce more than one value, the operator approach is FAR more readable. This plays into other newer features of C#, such as lambda expressions, LINQ sugar syntax, etc. The less code there is to muddy up the actual intentful code, the clearer the intent should/will be.