The ternary operator ? is a way of shortening an if-else clause, and is also called an immediate-if statement in other languages (IIf(condition,true-clause,false-clause) in VB, for example).
From what I know, PowerShell doesn't seem to have a built-in expression for the so-called ternary operator. For example, in the C language, which supports the ternary operator, I could write somet...
Which ternary operator are you talking about? A ternary operator is any operator that takes three arguments. If you're talking about the ? : operator, this is called the conditional operator. I can't live without it anymore, personally. If - else statements look so messy to me, especially when doing a conditional assignment. Some complain that it looks messy, but it is still possible ...
The conditional (ternary) operator is the only JavaScript operator that takes three operands. This operator is frequently used as a shortcut for the if statement.
@dutCh's answer shows that bash does have something similar to the "ternary operator" however in bash this is called the "conditional operator" expr?expr:expr (see man bash goto section "Arithmetic Evaluation"). Keep in mind the bash "conditional operator" is tricky and has some gotchas.
An if / else statement emphasises the branching first and what's to be done is secondary, while a ternary operator emphasises what's to be done over the selection of the values to do it with. In different situations, either may better reflect the programmer's "natural" perspective on the code and make it easier to understand, verify and maintain.
This is not the case for if-else construction in some other languages, like C or Java, because it doesn't return a value. So the bottom line is that in Scala you don't need a ternary operator, because you can just use if-else. Note: As mentions in the comments, if statement without else actually satisfies the first condition as well. When you write
The C conditional expression (commonly known as the ternary operator) has three operands: expr1 ? expr2 : expr3. If expr1 evaluates to true, expr2 is evaluated and is the result of the expression.
The ternary operator can be used to combine two expressions but an empty statement is not an expression. A method invocation can be used as an expression if the method returns a value (read: is not declared void) and it could be used together with a dummy constant null to form a ternary operator but the result would be again an expression which is not allowed in places where a statement is ...
I know that in PHP 5.3 instead of using this redundant ternary operator syntax: startingNum = startingNum ? startingNum : 1 ...we can use a shorthand syntax for our ternary operators where applica...
