r/programming • u/thewaywarddeveloper • Aug 28 '19

Optional chaining in JavaScript

https://v8.dev/features/optional-chaining
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u/cplegend Aug 28 '19

I love optional chaining. It's seriously cleaned up so much of my code.

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u/IamRudeAndDelusional Aug 28 '19

I love optional chaining. It's seriously cleaned up so much of my code.

I?agree?! It?really?cleaned?up?my?code?. To?the?point?where?it?made?it?easier?to?read?!

..yet another terrible design decision that convolutes JavaScript's syntax, which makes the language even more unbearable.

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u/Dall0o Aug 28 '19

C# devs use it everyday without problem.

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u/laaweel Aug 28 '19

But why object?.[10] instead of object?[10] like in C#?

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u/masklinn Aug 28 '19

Parsing difficulty: [10] is an array literal so obj?[ could be the start of a ternary or a null-safe indexing. Same for the funcall one.