The ternary operator ? is a way of shortening an if-else clause, and is also called an immediate-if statement in other languages (IIf(condition,true-clause,false-clause) in VB, for example).

Jun 7, 2011 · What is the ?: (question mark and colon operator aka. conditional or "ternary") operator and how can I use it?

It's a ternary operator (in that it has three operands) and it happens to be the only ternary operator in Java at the moment. However, the spec is pretty clear that its name is the conditional …

Apr 26, 2012 · This is the ternary conditional operator, which can be used anywhere, not just the print statement. It's sometimes just called "the ternary operator", but it's not the only ternary …

Jun 24, 2024 · A ternary operator is any operation that takes 3 inputs. In many contexts, however, ternary operator has become synonymous with conditional since the conditional is either the …

In regular code, it's syntactic sugar, but it does enable you to do conditional initialization in the initialization list of the constructot.

The ternary operator is a syntactic and readability convenience, not a performance shortcut. People are split on the merits of it for conditionals of varying complexity, but for short …

Conditional operator ? : is an operator which is used to check a condition and select a value depending on the value of the condition. It is expressed in the following form:

For a conditional expression (?:) to be an lvalue (again, in broad and simple terms), the second and third operands must be lvalues of the same type. This is because the type and value …

Nov 14, 2024 · This helps to define something that looks like ternary operator, but I think it doesn't really help to simplify the code in the OP's example.