I Wish That C# Didn’t Throw When Iterating Over a Null Collection
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List<string> list = null; foreach (var element in list) //... NullReferenceException above
Boom, in your face! We want to go through all elements in the
nonexisting collection. Not empty, but nonexisting. While you may argue
that semantically there is some difference, when do you actually want that exception to blow up? Fix is easy, but ugly:
if (list != null) { foreach (var element in list) // }
One way to implement this would be to allow a compiler flag that will expand foreach (var element in list)
into:
if (list != null) foreach (var element in list)
This is the same question as before: should you ever return null collections.
My answer is no, forget the null and make code prettier
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