safe navigation operator (English, noun)
expansion: safe navigation operator (plural safe navigation operators)
Senses:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A binary operator that returns its second argument, unless the first argument is null, in which case it returns null; used to simplify code that would otherwise need multiple explicit checks for nullity.
Forms:
form: safe navigation operators
tags: plural