This is why Java 8 introduced Optionals. It's not syntactic sugar so it's more verbose than the Kotlin example, but it does the same thing:
String manager = Optional.ofNullable(employee) .map(Employee::getDepartment) .map(Department::getHead) .map(Person::getName) .orElse(null);
Oh nice! I clearly haven't used Java in a while; I do still think the elvis operator looks a bit cleaner though.
Oh man... now I cannot unsee Elvis in the "Elvis operator" :-D
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This is why Java 8 introduced Optionals. It's not syntactic sugar so it's more verbose than the Kotlin example, but it does the same thing:
Oh nice! I clearly haven't used Java in a while; I do still think the elvis operator looks a bit cleaner though.
Oh man... now I cannot unsee Elvis in the "Elvis operator" :-D