That's exactly how we use them: One-liners for short expressions and stacked for long ones, especially GStrings. Highly context-specific.
Christopher Smith On Mon, Jul 27, 2026, 12:03 MG <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Gianluca, > > I might misuderstand what you propose here, but for me the whole idea > behind cond ? trueBranch : falseBranch is that it is a one-liner. > Otherwise it is better suited for if-else-... > > Having said that, I can see that this way of formatting might make sense, > if trueBranch and falseBranch are long(ish) String/GString|s (which we in > our code do not have) - but as a general formatting rule, I would be > against this. > > Cheers, > mg > > > Am 27.07.2026 um 14:38 schrieb Gianluca Sartori: > > Hi people, > > I've proposed the following PR to the Grails project in a rush, but I > guess its proper place is the Groovy project. > > https://github.com/apache/grails-core/pull/16055 > > We usually format ternary operators like this for readability: > > String message = condition > ? "Value when true" > : "Value when false" > > Would you accept such PR on the groovy-developer skill? > > Cheers, > Gianluca > > Gianluca Sartori > -- > https://dueuno.com > > >
