The next guy "sucks", I saw ternary used in ruby so just looked it up on google. I will use the [] for conditional execution, very educational. It would probably need commenting, but if you know what it does, how it does it is only a google search away.
> Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:19:50 -0700 > Subject: [jQuery] Re: Shorten the JQuery code > From: michaell...@gmail.com > To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com > > > Guess it depends on who the next guy is :) > > On Apr 16, 2:16 pm, "Andy Matthews" <li...@commadelimited.com> wrote: > > I'd be careful with code like that. It is terse, and very elegant, but not > > all that readable from a "coding for the next guy" mentality. > > > > _____ > > > > From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:jquery...@googlegroups.com] On > > Behalf Of Joseph Le Brech > > Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 4:12 PM > > To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com > > Subject: [jQuery] Re: Shorten the JQuery code > > > > I'm impressed by the [] brackets, does that eval() the 'hide' and 'show' > > strings? > > > > > > > > > Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:08:09 -0700 > > > Subject: [jQuery] Re: Shorten the JQuery code > > > From: michaell...@gmail.com > > > To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com > > > > > $('#no-defs')[$('.def').length==0?'show':'hide'](); > > > > > On Apr 16, 1:54 pm, MorningZ <morni...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > There isn't much you can do with that since you can't conditionally > > > > code in ".show" or ".hide" unless you made a plugin to pass in a true/ > > > > false parameter and decide in the plugin, for instance > > > > > > $("#no_defs").conditionalShow($('.def').length == 0); > > > > > > On Apr 16, 4:27 pm, Dragon-Fly999 <dragon-fly...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > Could someone tell me how to shorten the following code? Thanks. > > > > > > > if ($('.def').length == 0) { > > > > > $('#no-defs').show(); > > > > > } > > > > > else { > > > > > $('#no-defs').hide(); > > > > > } > > > > _____ > > > > Surfing the web just got more rewarding. Download the New Internet Explorer > > 8 <http://extras.uk.msn.com/internet-explorer-8/?ocid=T010MSN07A0716U> _________________________________________________________________ Beyond Hotmail — see what else you can do with Windows Live. http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/134665375/direct/01/
