Easily solved with an extension method; public static TReturn Try<TType, TReturn>(this TType value, Func<TType, TReturn> accessor) { if (value

Easily solved with an extension method; public static TReturn Try<TType, TReturn>(this TType value, Func<TType, TReturn> accessor) { if (value == null) return default(TReturn); return accessor(value); } The compiler should infer the generic types for you: var street = user.Try(_ => _.Address).Try(_ => _.Street); Sure the syntactic sugar is nicer but the extension method's not that much worse.