Is “if(!myobject)” the same as “if(myobject == null)”?

Question

Today I\'ve come across an interesting bit of C# code in a Unity project:

MyScript ms = new MyScript(); //MyScript derives from MonoBehaviour
ms = null;
if(!ms)          


        

Answer 1

No. You can do that in Javascript, but C# doesn't work like that unless myobject is actually a boolean.

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Based on this comment:

myobject ... derives from MonoBehaviour.

and this excerpt from the MonoBehavior docs:

Operators

bool           Does the object exist?  
operator !=    Compares if two objects refer to a different object.  

It looks like you can do this for your variable, becuase it is implicitly convertible to bool. But it's not generally okay for C#.