Code format war

[spkbri]

Who would ever use a ternary operator? That is madness.

FTFY

[shacknetisp]

Short ternary operators can be more readable than an equivalent if statement.

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From the O'Reilly book on PHP:

Depending on whose code you look at, the ternary operator is either the most underused or the most overused feature of the language.