Nullable types and ternary operators are around for many years now and may be not everybody know that ternary operator doesn't support assigning null values to nullable types. To understand the real reason for the design, I got in touch with Mads Torgersen, Alex Turner and Anson Horton; the lead technologists...

There is a easy way you could specify the default value i.e., the default value to be used in case the nullable type has a null value in it. Read More.