The ternary operator ? is a way of shortening an if-else clause, and is also called an immediate-if statement in other languages (IIf(condition,true-clause,false-clause) in VB, for example).

Jun 7, 2011 · What is the ?: (question mark and colon operator aka. conditional or "ternary") operator and how can I use it?

It's a ternary operator (in that it has three operands) and it happens to be the only ternary operator in Java at the moment. However, the spec is pretty clear that its name is the conditional operator or …

Apr 26, 2012 · This is the ternary conditional operator, which can be used anywhere, not just the print statement. It's sometimes just called "the ternary operator", but it's not the only ternary operator, just …

The ternary operator is a syntactic and readability convenience, not a performance shortcut. People are split on the merits of it for conditionals of varying complexity, but for short conditions, it can be useful …

In regular code, it's syntactic sugar, but it does enable you to do conditional initialization in the initialization list of the constructot.

Jun 24, 2024 · A ternary operator is any operation that takes 3 inputs. In many contexts, however, ternary operator has become synonymous with conditional since the conditional is either the most …

Conditional operator ? : is an operator which is used to check a condition and select a value depending on the value of the condition. It is expressed in the following form:

Sep 26, 2010 · 4 How is the conditional operator represented using bitwise operators? It is a homework question where I have to implement the conditional operator using only bitwise operations. It would …

43 The ternary operator (?:) is not designed for control flow, it's only designed for conditional assignment. If you need to control the flow of your program, use a control structure, such as if / else.