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if ... else if ... else if ... else ... : an alternative(blog.activa.be)

submitted by activa(2340) 4 years, 2 months ago

Did you know there's an alternative way of writing "if .. else if .. else if .. etc.." in C#? You probably do, but if you don't, read on...

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posted by luciolucio(0) 4 years, 2 months ago 0

404'd! :D

posted by vistadb(879) 4 years, 2 months ago 0

yuck, I would shoot anyone on my team who nested 5+ ternary operators. If you want to get rid of the IF ELSE lists replace it with another construct, not a shortcut to the exact same construct.

posted by wisemx(8074) 4 years, 2 months ago 0

read the comments...went over like walking into a classic cafe and asking where Starbucks is. :-)

posted by samdnp(980) 4 years, 2 months ago 0

I am terrified now. I have seen bad code, but......

posted by activa(2340) 4 years, 2 months ago 0

You people are hilarious.

What a fuss over a stupid article about a simple language feature that few people know about. The code sample I gave is not complicated, and cleaner than the if-then-else way of writing it, *IN THIS SPECIFIC CASE*. And in this case, even if someone doesn't have a clue about what the ternary operator does, he/she will still capture the meaning of that piece of code, because of the way it is written.

I would never recommend this pattern for performing complex conditional assignments. It's just a piece of code showing the "special" behavior of a right-associative operator such as the ternary operator.

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