Posted by Martin Lucas-Smith on 12/21/05 14:06

On Wed, 21 Dec 2005, tony@marston-home.demon.co.uk wrote:

> > So, PHP makers, if you are reading this:
> Please, please, please, *PLEASE* drop the ternary operator from future
> PHP versions! Just read the legacy code I'm confronted with and you
> understand why.
>
> Now there I would agree 100%. Every time I see the ternary operator I
> want to puke.


Why? Once you know it exists, it makes coding certain things very much
more efficient, e.g.


echo "You have $total " . (count ($total) == 1 ? 'item' : 'items') . '.';


rather than the verbose


if (count ($total) == 1) {
$tempWord = 'item';
} else {
$tempWord = 'items';
}
echo "You have $total {$tempWord}.";
unset ($tempWord);



or

$foo = (isSet ($_GET['foo']) ? $_GET['foo'] : 'default');


It's not as if this construct only exists in PHP.



Martin

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