On Apr 24, 2019, at 8:04 AM, Mark Volkmann <r.mark.volkm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>> On Apr 24, 2019, at 6:22 AM, Robert Engels <reng...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>>
>> Though to the ops point, not sure why Go doesn’t have the ternary operator -
>> which is pretty ubiquitous.
>
> The idea of adding the ternary operator to Go has been debated many times.
> It’s clear that those in charge have a strong dislike for it. For me the lack
> of the ternary operator is one of main things I dislike about Go. It’s nails
> on a chalkboard for me to write a five line “if” statement when it could have
> been a one line assignment statement.
I enthusiastically concur with this. I understand the antagonism toward the
ternary statement to a point, but there are some things that it just makes
about a million times easier without sacrificing readability:
fmt.Printf("This parrot is %s.\n", is_dead ? "pining for the fjords" : "alive")
This isn't just a toy example. Nothing (to my mind) is unclear about this
statement.
I run into this sort of thing every day; the main thing the ternary statement
relieves me of is either writing convoluted if/switch/map statements when a
single line would do, or repeating myself. I'd have to do one or the other to
resolve the above one-liner, and it wouldn't enhance readability in the
slightest.
- Dave
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