Eh, I can't say that I have any love for the ternary if operator. It is an ugly construct made necessary by the other flow control constructs being statements.

Eh, I can't say that I have any love for the ternary if operator. It is an ugly construct made necessary by the other flow control constructs being statements. Scala lets you just use if/else like that, the result is much clearer at the cost of 4 or so characters.