?? Null Coalescing Operator –> What does coalescing mean?

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I’m tempted to lie and say that English is my second language…but the truth is that I just have no idea what ‘Coalescing’ means. I know what ?? ‘does’ in C#, but the name doesn’t make sense to me.

I looked up the word and I understand it to be a synonym for ‘join’.

I’d say a more accurate description of “coalesce” would be “to form one thing from different elements”. The “coalescing” of the ?? operator happens because a single value is always resolved from one of the two values. The first non-null value is the result.

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