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.
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.