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  3. July 2004

Re: Ternary operator

Jon Paris wrote:

Boy - I don't often get to disagree with Barbara but this time ... <grin>

  >> No.  Me, I think the only place that's really useful is in C
function-type macros,

Personally I use the equivalent quite a lot in Excel - very useful for quick
"If x=0 then y= 0 else y=1" type stuff.  It is obvious and much shorter than
the five lines that RPG would require.


But RPG isn't Excel.

BTW, in RPG, if you wanted a shorter version of:

    if x=0;
       y=0;
    else
       y=1;
    endif;

you could code that in one line as:

    y = %int(x<>0);

I'll let you decide which is more readable. ;-)

Cheers! Hans


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