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Posted by robert on 05/10/06 22:59
"Lars Eighner" <usenet@larseighner.com> wrote in message
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| In our last episode,
| <r6q8g.32$2I1.27@fe05.lga>,
| the lovely and talented robert
| broadcast on alt.php:
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| >| > The doccy at http://www.php.net/manual/en/index.php is pretty good in
| >| > general, although I couldn't find the conditional operator either.
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| >| That's because it is documented in Expressions. Yeah, I know, ?:
| >| is called the tertiary conditional operator, but ...
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| > not to be a smart-ass lars, but...i suspect that if you *knew* the
notation
| > was called a tertiary conditional operator, you'd likewise know what the
| > hell it meant...or at least know what to google.
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| > ;^)
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| I was about to correct myself to "ternary conditional operator" but that
| gets about 50k fewer hits on google than "tertiary conditional operator."
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| However, the post to which I replied said he couldn't find it in the docs
| although *he* knew it was a conditional operator. I surmised that was
| because he, as I had at first, looked in 15. Operators. It's in 14.
| Expressions. It *is* the "ternary conditional operator" in php
documentation,
| but that seems to be (by goodle hits) a minority opinion.
i must have gotten lost in the thread or completely mis-read the whole damn
thing. anyway, i was trying to get a laugh from you. haven't seen you post
in a while.
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