C#•9mo ago

How can my out parameter be nullable?

Not sure what's going on, if anyone can give me a hand on this one

11 Replies

cheeze2000OP•9mo ago

so i have a dictionary called _names and the type is Dictionary<string, Ty> Ty is a class, name is a string

Angius•9mo ago

The Try pattern requires the out parameter to be nullable If the method returns false, the out has to be something, and the only option is a null

cheeze2000OP•9mo ago

ohhh

Angius•9mo ago

There's an attribute on it, [NotNullWhen] probably, that makes it so that it's not null when the return is true, yes But the type is still nullable That's why, most often, you see people use out var foo instead of out TheType foo

cheeze2000OP•9mo ago

Dictionary<string, int> test = [];

if (test.TryGetValue("", out int num))
{
  // what is num here? zero?
}

Dictionary<string, int> test = [];

if (test.TryGetValue("", out int num))
{
  // what is num here? zero?
}

Angius•9mo ago

$tias

MODiX•9mo ago

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cheeze2000OP•9mo ago

hehe wait it doesn't even work because there's no such entry in the dictionary oh it's 0, nice so it's just the default

Angius•9mo ago

Yep

cheeze2000OP•9mo ago

thanks

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How can my out parameter be nullable?