From: Tim Hunter <rmagick@...>
Date: 2007-03-16T00:35:14+09:00
Subject: Re: What does this do? :

John Joyce wrote:
 > one of the less lovely things to read in C like languages, but after
> you get used to it, it is actally a space saver.
> It is relly just an conditional with two possible outcomes

In C the ?: operator is useful when writing macros since it's an 
expression, as opposed to if/then, which is a statement. (Unlike Ruby.) 
The ?: operator has been terribly abused, though, by people who believe 
that you can make a program run faster by taking out whitespace.

-- 
Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.