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From: Ron Natalie <ron@sensor.com>
Subject: Re: Coding for Obscurity
Date: 1997/11/26
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Leon Jones wrote:
>  Ternary operators are horrendous and I avoid them at
> all costs. 

I wouldn't say that.  They are very useful.

It's only when people don't use the result of the
ternary expression, but rather rely on side effects
that's egregious.

Those are the cases that can have if/else directly
subsituted for them with no change in meaning.