Should we deprecate comma?

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Wed Mar 26 01:37:05 PDT 2014


On Tuesday, 25 March 2014 at 14:00:28 UTC, Byron wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Mar 2014 20:09:45 -0700, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> 
>> That was in Phobos too. Fix:
>> 
>> int a = something == 1 ? 1
>>         : something == 2 ? 2 : { assert(0); return 0; }();
>> 
>> There are of course other ways, too, including defining a 
>> function that
>> returns its last argument.
>> 
>> 
>> Andrei
>
> This would be a red flag in my code review, nested ternaries 
> are to hard
> to read and even worse for maintainability.  Been bit to many 
> times with
> little bugs in them.  Wish compilers would throw a warning when 
> they are
> used.

We use chained ternaries in our code regularly, and had no 
problem with them, with more than average programmers on the 
project. In my experience syntax didn't cause a single bug.


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