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I’m not CS smart enough to understand this… 😢
The joke is that the people in the conversation are kinda dumb
“Ternary operator” means “operator that takes three things”, like unary and binary operators take one and two things.
In C there is an operator for conditional expressions (an ‘if’ that you can put inside expressions) and it looks like this
condition ? trueBranch : falseBranch. It takes three expressions, so it’s a ternary operator.Except it’s the only ternary operator in C (and most languages, if they have one at all), so instead of calling it something like “conditional operator”, they just call it “the ternary operator”
A ternary is a short hand to assign a value based on a true/false statement
let a; if(isTtrue) a=2 else a=9Becomes
let a = (isTrue) ? 2 : 9I really like the way kotlin is doing it. The readability of the first one and still a direct assignment.
var a = if (isTrue) 2 else 9I like the python way as it reads more naturally
a = 2 if isTrue else 9
Honestly, it is not worth it and only mildly funny. You didn’t miss anything.
Clearly virgins
To my deranged Friday afternoon brain, this is the funniest bit
