On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 4:51 PM, Jason Molenda via lldb-commits
<lldb-commits@lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> Is this really simpler?  We could write it
>
> if (name == g_zero)
>   return 0;
> else
>   return UINT32_MAX;
>
> or we could do it that way, or it could be done the way it was originally 
> written.
>
> tbh it seems like a style choice, and whoever wrote it originally may have 
> preferred it being expressed that way.  I can understand that you prefer it 
> be expressed this way - but it's not actually any better or more readable, is 
> it?  Certainly the compiler is going to turn any variation we can come up 
> with into the same instructions.
>

Oh, I guess I should've said "make this code shorter" or something :)
We end up preferring ternary in llvm whenever possible, and I just
followed what was used there.
I largely agree it's a stylistic choice, FWIW.

--
Davide
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