Actually I donīt like much the ternary operator, except when it's shorter and readable, and maybe a few C-like uses...

and I was really surprised by PBP on this; I had thought ?: would be simply rejected, and comes that incredible table layout, really amazing one of the gems of the book

still only half-way convinced ;) I donīt know why...a gut feeling mainly... funny we thought more or less the same way