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i don't get what is not simple about ternary operator? why is if statement that necessitates multiple assignment statements, involves scoping rules and is obje

• candiodari 10y ago
  As a general principle, everything else being equal, less information density is simpler. Ternary operator is quite dense. Think about it: algebra (most of it) is just simple concepts incredibly densely written down and recursively applied. There are very few really complex parts in it, by which I mean there's very few individual steps that take long to understand, there's just so bloody many of them and they link together so incredibly tightly.
  • the_af 10y ago
    But everything else is not equal; the if-else construct is less clear, more error prone, and you must read it fully to make sure all branches are assignments and that it's therefore logically equivalent to an assignment.