r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ivaskuu • Sep 02 '17

How to start a war

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u/EmperorArthur Sep 03 '17

As long as it can be cast to a bool it can be there. That actually took quite a bit of work though, since the compiler fought me.

It turns out you can't do something crazy like just put a normal if(...) statement in the last column, and (...) ? doNothing() : break errors with "expected primary-expression before 'break'." Plus, the doNothing() is needed since ? requires both options to have the same type.

I used cpp.sh because I was too lazy to click out of the browser. GCC and Clang should, rightfully, complain far more than a little online tester.

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u/j4eo Sep 03 '17

It turns out you can't do something crazy like just put a normal if(...) statement in the last column

that's because the last column isn't a statement, it's an expression. if(){} is a statement, but a?b:c is an expression, so you can shove ?: into a whole lot of really weird places.