D community's view on syntactic sugar

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On Saturday, 16 June 2018 at 18:49:43 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:
> On 6/15/18 8:53 PM, Seb wrote:
>> On Saturday, 16 June 2018 at 00:32:24 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>>> On Sat, Jun 16, 2018 at 12:20:35AM +0000, Seb via 
>>> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>>>> On Friday, 15 June 2018 at 23:04:40 UTC, Sjoerd Nijboer 
>>>> wrote:
>>>> > For someone coming from a C# background there is some > 
>>>> > seemingly
>>>> simple syntactic sugar missing from D.
>>>> > > * The null conditional operator `?.`
>>>>
>>>> e.g. SafeAccess
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/BBasile/iz/blob/7336525992cb178ead83a7893a5a54597d840441/import/iz/sugar.d#L1551
>>>>
>>>
>>> Didn't Andrei propose an Elvis operator some time ago? 
>>> Whatever became of that DIP?
>>>
>>>
>>> T
>> 
>> https://forum.dlang.org/post/ot1q8b$23pt$1@digitalmars.com
>> https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/7242
>> 
>> I think Razvan focused on other projects no one else bothered 
>> enough to write a DIP about this.
>
> I don't know if this is the same thing. I'm not a (recent) C# 
> developer, but in Swift, ?. means something completely 
> different from ?: in Andrei's proposal.
>
> -Steve

Yes, Andrei's proposal was for the equivalent of ?? in C#.

int* p = null;
int n = p ?: 42;
assert(n == 42);