The new ?? and ??? operators

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"Arlen Albert Keshabyan" <arlen.albert at gmail.com> kirjoitti viestissä 
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> ?? operator should handle only object references, I think. Nothing more 
> than that.

I can't begin to count how many times I've written code like

    long id = data.GetLong("ID") ?? 0;

or

    long? id = data.GetLong("ID");

and then later accessing the value with

    id ?? 0

at some other point when doing DB coding with C#.

The ?? operator, as well as the nullable ? types, are quite nice to have 
when interfacing with the database.