From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2005-05-12T08:30:50+09:00
Subject: Re: alternatives to ? : contruct

On 5/11/05, David A. Black <dblack@wobblini.net> wrote:
> Hi --
> 
> On Thu, 12 May 2005, Logan Capaldo wrote:
> 
> > On 5/11/05, John-Mason P. Shackelford <jpshack@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> As an alternative to:
> >>
> >> a = y == z ? b : c
> >>
> >> we can say:
> >>
> >> a = (b if y == x) || c
> >>
> >> Can anyone think of others?
> >
> > Heres one way:
> >
> > x == y and a = b or c
> 
> In the case where x != y, that expression will just return c, without
> assigning it to a.  (I learned this the hard way either here or on IRC
> recently :-)
> 
> David
> 
> --
> David A. Black
> dblack@wobblini.net
> 
> 

Yeah, that was the the point.

If (x == y) then a = b else c end
is equivalent to x == y and a = b or c