Comments on: A few things you might not know about System.Nullable http://www.somethingorothersoft.com/2010/05/29/a-few-things-you-might-not-know-about-system-nullable/ About Software Development And Other Stuff By Igor Zevaka Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:37:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: igor http://www.somethingorothersoft.com/2010/05/29/a-few-things-you-might-not-know-about-system-nullable/comment-page-1/#comment-356 igor Tue, 20 Jul 2010 02:05:59 +0000 http://www.somethingorothersoft.com/?p=385#comment-356 <p>Jacob, yes, that makes perfect sense. And since it's a value type, assigning to a temporary variable actually creates a copy of the nullable value and thus is protected from threading issues.</p> Jacob, yes, that makes perfect sense. And since it’s a value type, assigning to a temporary variable actually creates a copy of the nullable value and thus is protected from threading issues.

]]> By: Jacob http://www.somethingorothersoft.com/2010/05/29/a-few-things-you-might-not-know-about-system-nullable/comment-page-1/#comment-355 Jacob Tue, 20 Jul 2010 01:38:01 +0000 http://www.somethingorothersoft.com/?p=385#comment-355 <p>Great information!</p> <p>I assume the temporary assignment in the ?? assignment is to make the generated code behave more predictably in multithreaded code. If the value of the nullable changes between the test and assignment, a null value could result.</p> Great information!

I assume the temporary assignment in the ?? assignment is to make the generated code behave more predictably in multithreaded code. If the value of the nullable changes between the test and assignment, a null value could result.

]]> By: Jacob http://www.somethingorothersoft.com/2010/05/29/a-few-things-you-might-not-know-about-system-nullable/comment-page-1/#comment-354 Jacob Tue, 20 Jul 2010 01:37:20 +0000 http://www.somethingorothersoft.com/?p=385#comment-354 <p>I assume the temporary assignment in the ?? assignment is to make the generated code behave more predictably in multithreaded code. If the value of the nullable changes between the test and assignment, a null value could result.</p> I assume the temporary assignment in the ?? assignment is to make the generated code behave more predictably in multithreaded code. If the value of the nullable changes between the test and assignment, a null value could result.

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