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[-] lowleveldata@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

ternaries are usually more flexible than switches

Which is bad for readability because the reader need to manually compute it to see whether it's doing simple switching or not. Also it adds the question of "Why did the author use a nested ternary instead of a switch? Was it meant to do more but it got left out unintentionally?"

[-] Serdan@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, you need to read code to understand it. If else statements can also do the job of a switch, so the exact same argument applies.

[-] lowleveldata@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

The point is I don't need to read a switch statement to know that it is a switch

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