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edoceotoday at 2:28 AM1 replyview on HN

I love the ternary operator as much as anyone. But dang if it doesn't get hard to read when there is are a few, nested even.

Does that operator compile to faster assembly that if I make the same logic with verbose `if` logic? Is that a language specific outcome?


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gnubisontoday at 3:01 AM

    cond1 ? res1 :
    cond2 ? res2 :
    cond3 ? res3 :
    or_else_res
If they are truly nested, then that is confusing. But if you have an if-else chain, then it can be quite readable.
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