Like everything in Perl, the ternary is ripe for abuse if you want to abuse it. I used to work with a guy who wrote stuff like this: 

my $send_now_button =
  ( !$auth{SEND}
    ? ''
    :  $status != 1
       ? ''
       : $approved
         ? $send_now
           ? ''
           : qq( ...blah blah ... )
         : $send_now
           ? ''
           : ''
  );

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Yes, that's a real-life example, in production code, for a multi-million dollar corporation, although I cleaned it up a bit.

Personally, I like the ternary, as long as you don't go nuts with it. I only use it in assignments, and I don't nest them.

In reply to Re: Ternary operators: a hinderance, not a help by friedo
in thread Ternary operators: a hinderance, not a help by Tanalis

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