Because you can deduplicate certain parts of the logic which make the whole thing less error prone, such as if c x=1 else x=2 If I ever wa

Because you can deduplicate certain parts of the logic which make the whole thing less error prone, such as if c x=1 else x=2 If I ever want to change x, or refactor this code some other way, its a more brittle process over x=c?1:2 The ternary expression also takes up much less space so there is less of an emphasis on it, this can be a stylistic tool in a programmer's toolbox