I’m new to Go and I imagine the idea of adding a ternary operator to Go has 
been discussed many times. Rather than repeat that, can someone point me to a 
discussion about why Go doesn’t add this? I’m struggling to understand why it 
is desirable to write code like this:

var color
if temperature > 100 {
    color = “red”
} else {
    color = “blue”
}

Instead of this:

var color = temperature > 100 ? “red” : “blue”

Is the ternary really so confusing that it justifies writing 6 lines of code 
instead of 1? I realize I could eliminate two lines like the following, but 
this isn’t a good idea if the values come from function calls since there would 
sometimes be needless function calls.

var color = “blue”
if temperature > 100 {
    color = “red”
}

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R. Mark Volkmann
Object Computing, Inc.

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