How is a ternary more readable? I've found that they make code more complex
and unreadable, in both C and the proposed go, and the one-liner you
provide is equally or more unreadable than the more verbose if statement.
On Thu, Aug 16, 2018, 16:55 Liam Breck <networkimp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Indeed, the problem is largely go fmt, I already raised this, but no one
> picked up on it:
>
> I use this one-liner:
>
> v := a; if t { v = b }
>
> This is not compatible with go fmt, but that tool's effects are
> undocumented (see issue 18790 <https://github.com/golang/go/issues/18790>
> which
> was declined), and it has no switches to disable/enable features. A
> syntax-aware sed is a good idea, but sadly go fmt destroys useful
> constructs. Other examples:
>
> err := fn()
> if err != nil { return err }
>
> switch v {
> case 1: pkg.one()
> case 2: pkg.two()
> case 3: pkg.thrice()
> }
>
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2018, 3:30 PM Matthias B. <m...@winterdrache.de> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 15 Aug 2018 07:46:51 -0700 (PDT)
>> Hoo Luu <qq510371...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > 在 2018年8月15日星期三 UTC+8上午12:43:37，Mark Volkmann写道:
>> >
>> > > var color = temperature > 100 ? “red” : “blue”
>> >
>> >
>> > Although this feature will not be accepted, we could just talk about
>> > it. I prefer 'if-expression' to ternary.
>> >
>> > var color = if temperature > 100 { "red" } else { "blue" }
>> >
>> > vs. current if statement syntax:
>> >
>> > var color
>> > if temperature > 100 {
>> > color = "red"
>> > } else {
>> > color = "blue"
>> > }
>> >
>>
>> I get the impression that the real issue here is that gofmt will break
>>
>> if temperature > 100 { color = "red" } else { color = "blue" }
>>
>> over multiple lines and that what the people asking for a ternary
>> operator really want is a one-liner. So ask yourselves, if gofmt were
>> to format your ternary operator (or the above suggested if-expression)
>> identical to the if statement, i.e. across the same number of lines,
>> would you still want it?
>>
>> var color =
>> if temperature > 100 {
>> "red"
>> } else {
>> "blue"
>> }
>>
>>
>> var color =
>> temperature > 100 ?
>> "red"
>> :
>> "blue"
>>
>>
>> If you would NOT use these, your real issue is with gofmt, not the Go
>> language.
>>
>>
>> MSB
>>
>>
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