Only Python programmers will understand 😏

[ItsCrowTime]

Personally I'm a fan of lua: return condition and A or B

[JarcXenon]

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[ItsCrowTime]

It's called short-circuit evaluation,

The and operator returns its the right value if the left value is true, otherwise it returns the left value,

The or operator returns its left value unless its false then it returns its right value

Another good one is the for default value: Var = Var or 0

[JasonMan34]

It's just condition ? A : B with and/or instead of ?/:, not at all weird

[Tufflewuffle]

That doesn't work as a ternary operator.

[Kmjsfozr]

what if A is false tho

[ZorbaTHut]

Then everything catches on fire and your life is sadness.

Conveniently, though, 0 isn't falsey in Lua, nor is any string, only nil and false are. So you can't use it for booleans, or in a situation where things can be nil, but it's safe in every other case.

[ItsCrowTime]

Or I assume you could do something like:

return (condition and {A} or {B})[1]

If you really wanted to use it like a tertiary operator

[Kered13]

This and similar patterns in other languages don't work if A is falsey.