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the conditional operator can yield a L-value in C/C++ which can be assigned another value, but the vast majority of programmers consider this extremely poor style, if only because of the technique's obscurity. [6]
The ternary operator can also be viewed as a binary map operation. In R—and other languages with literal expression tuples—one can simulate the ternary operator with something like the R expression c (expr1, expr2)[1 + condition] (this idiom is slightly more natural in languages with 0-origin subscripts).
The binding of operators in C and C++ is specified (in the corresponding Standards) by a factored language grammar, rather than a precedence table. This creates some subtle conflicts. For example, in C, the syntax for a conditional expression is:
For example: If stock=0 Then message= order new stock Else message= there is stock End If. In the example code above, the part represented by (Boolean condition) constitutes a conditional expression, having intrinsic value (e.g., it may be substituted by either of the values True or False) but having no intrinsic meaning
The above example would also eliminate the problem of IIf evaluating both its truepart and falsepart parameters. Visual Basic 2008 (VB 9.0) introduced a true conditional operator, called simply "If", which also eliminates this problem. Its syntax is similar to the IIf function's syntax:
In some languages, this operator is referred to as the conditional operator. In Python, the ternary conditional operator reads x if C else y. Python also supports ternary operations called array slicing, e.g. a[b:c] return an array where the first element is a[b] and last element is a[c-1]. [5]
The null coalescing operator is a binary operator that is part of the syntax for a basic conditional expression in several programming languages, such as (in alphabetical order): C# [1] since version 2.0, [2] Dart [3] since version 1.12.0, [4] PHP since version 7.0.0, [5] Perl since version 5.10 as logical defined-or, [6] PowerShell since 7.0.0, [7] and Swift [8] as nil-coalescing operator.
In a language that supports the Elvis operator, something like this: x = f() ?: g() will set x equal to the result of f() if that result is truthy, and to the result of g() otherwise. It is equivalent to this example, using the conditional ternary operator: x = f() ? f() : g() except that it does not evaluate f() twice if it yields truthy.