semantics with statics and prefixes about nullawareoperators

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I can see arguments either way. The current spec has the advantage of consistency (prefixes and class names have special meaning only when followed by .; adding special cases for ?. seems silly, especially given that it doesn't afford the user any extra expressiveness). On the other hand, it seems equally silly to write extra code to prohibit C?.x and prefix?.x when it's pretty obvious what the user probably meant.

But I really don't have strong feelings about it; it seems unlikely that anyone would write C?.x or prefix?.x on purpose, since neither prefixes nor class literals can ever be null. So it probably doesn't matter.

If I had to make the call I would probably lean toward leaving it as is just out of laziness :)