Is there a conditional ternary operator in VB.NET?

Question

In Perl (and other languages) a conditional ternary operator can be expressed like this:

my $foo = $bar == $buz ? $cat : $dog;

Is there a s

Answer 1

If() is the closest equivalent but beware of implicit conversions going on if you have set "Option Strict off"

For example, if your not careful you may be tempted to try something like:

Dim foo As Integer? = If(someTrueExpression, Nothing, 2)

Will give "foo" a value of 0!

I think the '?' operator equivalent in C# would instead fail compilation