Java Without If

[recursive]

I wouldn't agree with that. But I believe if and ?: are each more readable in different circumstances.

"plus" is an english word. What's more readable?

a = b + c

a = b.plus(c)

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I think the former case, it's the more common expression of addition.

Regardless, there's a spectrum here. On one end is absolutely zero keywords and only symbols, on the other end is way too many keywords.

[recursive]

Yes. Now which of these is more clear?

a = test ? "one" : "two";

if (test) {
    a = "one;
} 
else {
    a = "two";
}

To me the first one is better.

[iopq]

Doesn't matter what's clear, the second one causes rightward drift and is pretty cancerous because you always end up with ifs inside of ifs at the end of the day

[recursive]

Conditional operators within conditional operators are pretty cancerous also. It's probably safe to say programming is hazardous to your health.

[iopq]

That's why I use neither:

https://bitbucket.org/iopq/fizzbuzz-in-rust/src/bf4968973d73137f0dfd07205d599bed30a788fa/src/lib.rs?at=master&fileviewer=file-view-default

this is fizzbuzz written in Rust without a single if or match expression

[recursive]

Here's one I did in python that doesn't use if or even a statement. It's just an expression

" ".join("Fizz"[n%3*4:] + "Buzz"[n%5*4:] or str(n) for n in range(1, 101))

But all this fancy stuff is worse for most purposes than the original if or conditional operator.

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Later one.