Re: [PIC] Learning C

It ight be more compact but the if...else formulation is much clearer.  So
clear in fact that someone not trained in programming could understand
what it means
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On Thu, 14 Nov 2024 at 16:17, Spehro Pefhany <[email protected]> wrote:

> At 03:56 AM 2024-11-14, you wrote:
> >Ans 404 to you :-)
> >
> >Onew of the problems I have with trying to understand code examples in C
> is
> >that so many of them are incomprehensibly dense.
> >What would be five or six lines in Pascal or Basic is a single line in C.
> >I appreciate that that is down to the programmer not the language but it
> is
> >off putting
> >i have to remind my self of the old adage:  You can write Pascal in any
> >language
>
> I do like the ternary operator '?' in C (and in some other languages)
> which reduces several lines to one and is still very readable, maybe more
> so.
>
> variable = condition ? value_if_true : value_if_false
>
> instead of
>
> if (a > b) {
>      result = x;
> }
> else {
>      result = y;
> }
>
>
> just write
>
> result = a > b ? x : y;
>
> Best regards, Spehro Pefhany
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