Throwing exceptions in expressions in C# 7.0

C# 7.0 makes it possible to throw exceptions with ternary and null-coalescing operators.

Here’s an example where we throw an exception if the divisor is 0:

private double Divide(double what, double withWhat)
{
	return withWhat != 0 ? what / withWhat : throw new ArgumentException("nono");
}

If the divisor is not 0 then we return the result otherwise we throw an exception.

Another place where we now can throw exceptions is with null-coalescing operators. Here’s a Dog class with a constructor where we want to throw an exception if the Dog name is null:

public class Dog
{
	private string name;
	public Dog(string name) => this.name = name ?? throw new ArgumentNullException("Dog name");
}

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