Throw expression
January 24, 2025 · View on GitHub
Champion issue: https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/issues/62
We extend the set of expression forms to include
throw_expression
: 'throw' null_coalescing_expression
;
null_coalescing_expression
: throw_expression
;
The type rules are as follows:
- A throw_expression has no type.
- A throw_expression is convertible to every type by an implicit conversion.
A throw expression throws the value produced by evaluating the null_coalescing_expression, which must denote a value of the class type System.Exception, of a class type that derives from System.Exception or of a type parameter type that has System.Exception (or a subclass thereof) as its effective base class. If evaluation of the expression produces null, a System.NullReferenceException is thrown instead.
The behavior at runtime of the evaluation of a throw expression is the same as specified for a throw statement (§12.10.6).
The flow-analysis rules are as follows:
- For every variable v, v is definitely assigned before the null_coalescing_expression of a throw_expression iff it is definitely assigned before the throw_expression.
- For every variable v, v is definitely assigned after throw_expression.
A throw expression is permitted in only the following syntactic contexts:
- As the second or third operand of a ternary conditional operator
?: - As the second operand of a null coalescing operator
?? - As the body of an expression-bodied lambda or method.