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I'm not CS smart enough to understand this... ๐ข
"Ternary operator" means "operator that takes three things", like unary and binary operators take one and two things.
In C there is an operator for conditional expressions (an 'if' that you can put inside expressions) and it looks like this
condition ? trueBranch : falseBranch. It takes three expressions, so it's a ternary operator.Except it's the only ternary operator in C (and most languages, if they have one at all), so instead of calling it something like "conditional operator", they just call it "the ternary operator"
I really like the way kotlin is doing it. The readability of the first one and still a direct assignment.
var a = if (isTrue) 2 else 9I like the python way as it reads more naturally
Honestly, it is not worth it and only mildly funny. You didnโt miss anything.
Very useful reply ๐
The joke is that the people in the conversation are kinda dumb
What?
Well if you make me actually explain it, I'm going to sound like an asshole; the joke is so obvious and low-level and the type of humor so uninspired that I figure they must be a little.. you know, dumb.
Too late muchacho... you're already giving real big superiority vibes here
Yeah.. well, you know.
It's not the best joke I've seen, but I wouldn't call it dumb. To each their own, I guess. Jokes are subjective.