On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 1:14 PM andrey mirtchovski <mirtchov...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Here's the lore associated with the subject: Ken wanted ternary, Rob > and Robert did not. They overruled Ken (remember, early on all three > had to agree for a feature to go in). The end. > > The number of frivolous and egregious abuse of ternary that I've seen > in _modern_ C code is too high.jpg > +100 to that sentiment. While the brevity of a ternary expression is useful for trivial cases it tends to be abused. For your amusement/horror here are just a few, of a couple hundred, examples of ternary being abused in the AT&T AST (which includes ksh) source: https://github.com/att/ast/blob/e770c77e9816e156c6df4a455e71b5f9fff79310/src/cmd/ksh93/edit/hexpand.c#L447 https://github.com/att/ast/blob/e770c77e9816e156c6df4a455e71b5f9fff79310/src/cmd/ksh93/sh/string.c#L344-L346 https://github.com/att/ast/blob/8504cd407846d192881a94d507333697f016a85a/src/lib/libast/include/sfio.h#L359-L360 https://github.com/att/ast/blob/8504cd407846d192881a94d507333697f016a85a/src/lib/libast/include/cdt.h#L313-L316 https://github.com/att/ast/blob/e770c77e9816e156c6df4a455e71b5f9fff79310/src/lib/libz/deflate.c#L597-L609 For those who don't want to follow those links this is the code from the first URL above: lc_unicodeliterals = quote=='u' ? 1 : quote=='U' ? 0 : !!(ast.locale.set & AST_LC_unicodeliterals); -- Kurtis Rader Caretaker of the exceptional canines Junior and Hank -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
