From: trivas7@...
Date: 2002-06-10T11:19:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Ternary Operator

Simon Bailey wrote:

> Is there some sort of ternary operator in Ruby like the one in C++?
> 
> eg.
> 
> greaterThanFive = (x > 5) ? "yes" : "no";

Yes, to my newbie-knowledge it is borrowed from C:  condition? expr1 : expr2

i.e., 

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