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Mert Özen's blog posts on software development, backend, frontend, and DevOps.

Series

Operator Overloading and Indexers in C#

Why operators are static methods and the trap that comes with it, arithmetic and comparison operators for Money, the compiler's rules, implicit/explicit conversions, indexers and Index/Range support.

7 Nov 2026 10 min 31

Backend PART 07

Operators and Expressions in C#: Short-Circuiting, ??, ?. and Precedence

Expressions versus statements in C#, arithmetic and compound assignment, prefix and postfix increments, comparison, logical operators and short-circuiting, the ?: operator, handling null with ??, ??= and ?., and precedence traps such as 100 - discount ?? 0.

7 Nov 2026 10 min 35