Re: Replacing the "if" statement with an "if" expression which supersedes it

Le 26/06/2026 à 17:32, Andrey Dobrovolsky a écrit :
> Greetings!
>
>> http://lua-users.org/wiki/TernaryOperator says :
>>> The main caveat is that if |a| or |c| evaluates to true while |b| or |d| respectively evaluate to false, then this expression >> will not behave exactly like the ternary operator.
> In my understanding it is not a "caveat" (opinionated) but lack of parentheses.
>
> Regards,
> -- Andrew


Well, not quite!
The caveat is still present with extra parentheses, that I can tell:

> (10 < 11) and ("yes") or ("no")
yes
> (10 < 11) and (false) or (0)
0

Can you fix the second example to return `false` as it should, by adding some parentheses? I experimented but failed.



To digress and be entirely honest, the other (and main) caveat of `condition and a or b` is that readability suffers, because objectively it is not stating its intention!
And when it's nested, I feel a bit lost: `x = a and b or c and d or e`

Cheers


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