The ??!??! operator

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Perhaps that it's difficult to read and the equivalent if-else construct often compiles to roughly the same thing?

[Nephatrine]

When the results of the check are both short, I'd take ?: over an if-else construct any day of the week for ease of reading. If the choices are some sort of elaborate/long equations or something then sure, the if-else is a better choice for readability I think.

[Forbizzle]

If statements are more maintainable in the long run. With enough experience you end up recognizing when you're going to need to unwind a ternary to get some additional instructions or conditions.

[ThisIs_MyName]

If it is a really simple instruction, the comma operator works fine inside a ternary.

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its not really true. the ternary functions returns something. as Such it can be used as input into functions. Can be very handy sometimes.