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> what do you mean by "named being conditional" and how could the description be clearer?

This problem is borrowed from C, which was one of the templates for designing Perl

"Conditional operator" seems to be the original term for the "ternary operator"

I have an almost original copy of Kernighan/Ritchie in my bookshelf - though in German - and it's introduced as "Conditional Validation" ("Bedingte Bewertung")

I agree with you that the name is unfortunate and I've never heard using it in Perl's context. "Ternary Operator" is the "normal" term.

I'd suggest:

changing the title to "Ternary Operator" and appending an example exemplifying the analogy to if-then-else

https://perldoc.perl.org/perlop#Conditional-Operator

* Ternary Operator

Ternary "?:" is like the conditional operator in C.

It works much like an if-then-else. ... yadda yadda ..

$max = ($a > $b) ? $a : $b

has the same effect like

$max = do { if ($a > $b) {$a} else {$b} }

I'd also add similar code examples to and , && , or and ||

  • "It works much like an if-then"
  • "It works much like an unless-then"

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery


In reply to Re^2: Situation where warning "Found = in conditional, should be" seems obsolete (documentation - C terminology) by LanX
in thread Situation where warning "Found = in conditional, should be" seems obsolete by rsFalse

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