Disallowing ?:?: syntax
Miles
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Mon Jan 5 04:06:29 PST 2009
bearophile wrote:
> My little proposal for D is to turn the following into a syntax
> error, to avoid possile programmer mistakes (so the programmer must
> put parentheses here to make it compile):
>
> x ? y : a ? b : c
The ternary operator is not ambiguous, I see no need for making it an
error. I have used such constructs very often, with no problem:
writefln("Printer is %s.",
status == OFFLINE ? "offline" :
status == ONLINE ? "online" :
status == CHECK ? "out of paper" :
status == ONLINE_CHECK ? "on fire" :
"unknown status");
That would become a real mess of parenthesis.
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