Please remove ?:

[Jarrett Billingsley]

"Lionello Lunesu" <lio at lunesu.remove.com> wrote in message 
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> Please remove ?:...

I'll agree with you to an extent, though keep in mind that I am of the 
opinion that the tradeoff of a bit more space for a lot more readability is 
a Good Thing (TM).  ?: can be abused, certainly, but so can most of the 
other language constructs.  That code that you show is certainly abuse; any 
code where the effect isn't immediately obvious is, in my opinion, 
badly-written.  I've seen conditional statements nested three deep before. 
It's not a pretty thing.

I rarely use ?:, and when I do, it's always something very short and 
obvious, such as

char[] name = (numApples > 1) ? "apples" : "apple";

However, there will always be programmers who _like_ to nest conditional 
statements three deep, and because D is a practical language and not an 
ideological language, ?: won't be going away.