[Proposal]: Null conditional assignment (VS 18.0, .NET 10)
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Description
* Speclet: https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/blob/main/proposals/csharp-14.0/null-conditional-assignment.md
* Discussion: https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/discussions/8676
## Summary
[summary]: #summary
Permits assignment to occur conditionally within a `a?.b` or `a?[b]` expression.
```cs
using System;
class C
{
public object obj;
}
void M(C? c)
{
c?.obj = new object();
}
```
```cs
using System;
class C
{
public event Action E;
}
void M(C? c)
{
c?.E += () => { Console.WriteLine("handled event E"); };
}
```
```cs
void M(object[]? arr)
{
arr?[42] = new object();
}
```
## Design meetings
- https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/blob/main/meetings/2022/LDM-2022-04-27.md#null-conditional-assignment
- https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/blob/main/meetings/2022/LDM-2022-08-31.md#null-conditional-assignment
- https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/blob/main/meetings/2022/LDM-2022-10-26.md#null-conditional-assignment
- https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/blob/main/meetings/2024/LDM-2024-10-28.md#increment-and-decrement-operators-in-null-conditional-access
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