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What's a readability (lemmy.world)
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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Boiling down multi-line expressions into single line statements has been a trend in Comp-Sci for a while.

That

X = IsY ? Y : Z

format has been around for decades.

I generally prefer it to clunky if-statements