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Perfect relationship (gregtech.eu)

submitted 10 months ago by lena@gregtech.eu to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] WiredBrain@lemmy.ca 19 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I'm not CS smart enough to understand this... 😢

[–] edinbruh@feddit.it 42 points 10 months ago

"Ternary operator" means "operator that takes three things", like unary and binary operators take one and two things.

In C there is an operator for conditional expressions (an 'if' that you can put inside expressions) and it looks like this condition ? trueBranch : falseBranch. It takes three expressions, so it's a ternary operator.

Except it's the only ternary operator in C (and most languages, if they have one at all), so instead of calling it something like "conditional operator", they just call it "the ternary operator"

[+] MightBeFluffy@pawb.social 25 points 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] tja@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I really like the way kotlin is doing it. The readability of the first one and still a direct assignment.

var a = if (isTrue) 2 else 9

[–] 48954246@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I like the python way as it reads more naturally

a = 2 if isTrue else 9

[–] mobotsar@sh.itjust.works -3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The joke is that the people in the conversation are kinda dumb

[–] lena@gregtech.eu 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What?

[–] mobotsar@sh.itjust.works -1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Well if you make me actually explain it, I'm going to sound like an asshole; the joke is so obvious and low-level and the type of humor so uninspired that I figure they must be a little.. you know, dumb.

[–] lena@gregtech.eu 2 points 10 months ago

It's not the best joke I've seen, but I wouldn't call it dumb. To each their own, I guess. Jokes are subjective.

[–] andronicus@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Well if you make me actually explain it, I'm going to sound like an asshole

Too late muchacho... you're already giving real big superiority vibes here

[–] mobotsar@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah.. well, you know.

[–] pocker_machine@lemmy.world -3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Honestly, it is not worth it and only mildly funny. You didn’t miss anything.

[–] lena@gregtech.eu 3 points 10 months ago

Very useful reply 👍

[–] catty@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Clearly virgins

[–] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

To my deranged Friday afternoon brain, this is the funniest bit