From 4dedd0cb19420611aa54cc5bce65f881c8b0f42a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: pkulikov <petr.kulikov@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2020 20:17:55 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] String concatenation: clarify behavior for null

---
 docs/csharp/language-reference/operators/addition-operator.md | 4 ++--
 .../language-reference/operators/snippets/AdditionOperator.cs | 2 ++
 docs/csharp/language-reference/operators/snippets/Program.cs  | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/csharp/language-reference/operators/addition-operator.md b/docs/csharp/language-reference/operators/addition-operator.md
index 9774edd615841..e36452463a74b 100644
--- a/docs/csharp/language-reference/operators/addition-operator.md
+++ b/docs/csharp/language-reference/operators/addition-operator.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 title: "+ and += operators - C# reference"
-ms.date: 05/24/2019
+ms.date: 04/23/2020
 f1_keywords: 
   - "+_CSharpKeyword"
   - "+=_CSharpKeyword"
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ For information about the arithmetic `+` operator, see the [Unary plus and minus
 
 ## String concatenation
 
-When one or both operands are of type [string](../builtin-types/reference-types.md#the-string-type), the `+` operator concatenates the string representations of its operands:
+When one or both operands are of type [string](../builtin-types/reference-types.md#the-string-type), the `+` operator concatenates the string representations of its operands (the string representation of `null` is an empty string):
 
 [!code-csharp-interactive[string concatenation](snippets/AdditionOperator.cs#AddStrings)]
 
diff --git a/docs/csharp/language-reference/operators/snippets/AdditionOperator.cs b/docs/csharp/language-reference/operators/snippets/AdditionOperator.cs
index 1f0878a56e1af..db376738bef5b 100644
--- a/docs/csharp/language-reference/operators/snippets/AdditionOperator.cs
+++ b/docs/csharp/language-reference/operators/snippets/AdditionOperator.cs
@@ -26,9 +26,11 @@ private static void StringConcatenation()
             // <SnippetAddStrings>
             Console.WriteLine("Forgot" + "white space");
             Console.WriteLine("Probably the oldest constant: " + Math.PI);
+            Console.WriteLine(null + "Nothing to add.");
             // Output:
             // Forgotwhite space
             // Probably the oldest constant: 3.14159265358979
+            // Nothing to add.
             // </SnippetAddStrings>
 
             // <SnippetUseStringInterpolation>
diff --git a/docs/csharp/language-reference/operators/snippets/Program.cs b/docs/csharp/language-reference/operators/snippets/Program.cs
index 8b1879f90162d..fc1cb4e9879d1 100644
--- a/docs/csharp/language-reference/operators/snippets/Program.cs
+++ b/docs/csharp/language-reference/operators/snippets/Program.cs
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ static async Task Main(string[] args)
             UserDefinedConversions.Main();
             Console.WriteLine();
 
-            Console.WriteLine("========= switch expression example =========");
+            Console.WriteLine("========= switch expression example ============");
             SwitchExpressions.Examples();
             Console.WriteLine();