[ruby-core:96501] [Ruby master Feature#16451] Special ternary operator for methods ending in `?`

Issue #16451 has been updated by Dan0042 (Daniel DeLorme).


Also against.

I agree that the double question mark looks weird in `foo? ? 1 : 2`, but that's just a code formatting issue and doesn't warrant such an exceptional syntax. xBartu's suggestion is good, or you could customize your editor's syntax highlighting to de-emphasize the second question mark.

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Feature #16451: Special ternary operator for methods ending in `?`
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/16451#change-83433

* Author: myxoh (Nicolas Klein)
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
* Target version: 
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When a method ends in `?`, we should be able to skip the `?` in the ternary operator. For example, we should be able to do:

```ruby
question_method? true_statement : false_statement
```

This shouldn't interfere with implementations, as it currently fails to parse. Below are examples:

```ruby
def normal_method; true end
def question_method?; false end

question_method? ? 'was true' : 'was false' # => 'was false'
question_method?   'was true' : 'was false' # => 'was false'
normal_method ?    'was true' : 'was false' # => 'was true'
```



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