Juval Lowy's C# Coding Standards Questions

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I enjoy and highly recommend Juval Lowy\'s - C# Coding Standard. Juval explicitly avoids rationale for each directive in order to keep the standard tight (see the preface). Howe

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2.29 Ternary operator

To start with, if you start to use the ternary operator, there should be a reason for the use of the ternary operator over a regular if-then-else. Observe :

if (x == 0) {...} else{...} //A set of statements demand a regular If-then-else

//A simple assignment can be handled by the ternary operator
y = (x == 0)? 1 : 0 //this is readable and how it should be used


(x==0)? callSomething() : callSomethingElse() //this is NOT how it should be used

The ternary statement is meant for returning one of two values depending upon the conditional it is evaluating. This is extremely handy when doing FP. For call statements that do not return a value, you should revert to if-then-else.