Posted by Andy Hassall on 11/12/73 11:20

On 4 Jul 2005 04:47:10 -0700, "binderup@gmail.com" <binderup@gmail.com> wrote:

>Why would people use the shortened version?

The ternary operator is not equivalent to an if statement; it is an
expression. So you can also avoid writing code to assign to temporaries.

$x = true;

if ($x)
{
$str = 'true';
}
else
{
$str = 'false';
}

print $str;

# versus

print $x ? 'true' : 'false';

>I find it much harder to read,

Depends on the circumstance.

It's only really useful for trivial conditions.

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