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On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 11:45:29AM +0100, Victor Churchill wrote:
> On Hugo's second question, well yes different languages have different
> capabilities.
>
> So in perl one could boil the whole thing down to
> my $result = ($fast_path_applicable?) $fast_path() : $slow_path() ;
> return $result;
However, use of the ternary operator is almost always a big mistake
in my opinion. It's pretty much unreadable, unless all three operands
are trivial and atomic, and even then an if statement is frequently
preferable.
I happily thought that the ternary operator had been put to death
in Python, until I saw this little gem in some code yesterday:
(is_forward and "F" or "B")
The perpetrator has been given a good talking-to. :)
Hugo.
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