> Conditionals are common enough that they can justify the indulgence I think there's another much more important factor that distinguishes conditionals from m

> Conditionals are common enough that they can justify the indulgence I think there's another much more important factor that distinguishes conditionals from most other ternary operations (clamp, mix, FMA, etc): The "conditional evaluation" part, which is what makes it hard to replicate with a regular function call.