I prefer if-expressions where possible. For example, this is valid Rust:
letx = if is_y {
y
} else {
z
};
(Can also be on a single line.)
This is the same syntax as the normal if-statement, except the compiler forces you to add an else-branch, if you want to ‘return’ a value from it.
Don’t tell anyone, but the ternary operator is when the C designers realized that being purely procedural is cumbersome AF. 🙃
Unfortunately, they decided that expressions need to look like math, so now JS devs get to write random question marks and colons across many, deeply nested lines of code.
Boiling down multi-line expressions into single line statements has been a trend in Comp-Sci for a while.
That
format has been around for decades.
I generally prefer it to clunky if-statements
I prefer if-expressions where possible. For example, this is valid Rust:
let x = if is_y { y } else { z };(Can also be on a single line.)
This is the same syntax as the normal if-statement, except the compiler forces you to add an else-branch, if you want to ‘return’ a value from it.
Don’t tell anyone, but the ternary operator is when the C designers realized that being purely procedural is cumbersome AF. 🙃
Unfortunately, they decided that expressions need to look like math, so now JS devs get to write random question marks and colons across many, deeply nested lines of code.