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Perfect relationship (gregtech.eu)

submitted 1 year ago by lena@gregtech.eu to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[-] WiredBrain@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 year ago

I'm not CS smart enough to understand this... 😢

[-] edinbruh@feddit.it 41 points 1 year ago

"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"

[+] MightBeFluffy@pawb.social 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[-] tja@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I 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 9

[-] 48954246@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I like the python way as it reads more naturally

a = 2 if isTrue else 9

[-] pocker_machine@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Honestly, it is not worth it and only mildly funny. You didn’t miss anything.

[-] lena@gregtech.eu 3 points 1 year ago

Very useful reply 👍

[-] mobotsar@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

The joke is that the people in the conversation are kinda dumb

[-] lena@gregtech.eu 1 points 1 year ago

What?

[-] mobotsar@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Well if you make me actually explain it, I'm going to sound like an asshole; the joke is so obvious and low-level and the type of humor so uninspired that I figure they must be a little.. you know, dumb.