Thread: Conditional Operator

Originally Posted by arjunajay

Is it possible to use the Ternary operator without the colon( : ).
i.e. with only one operand.

Code:

(condition)?
instead of
(condition)? true_stmt : false_stmt ;

I've heard that its very low precedence causes it to return (condition) rather than true_stmt or false_stmt when used with any operator other than assignment operators.

To answer your question: no there is no way to use ternary operator without the false part of it. For one thing it would change it from a ternary operator to a binary operator

I think the problem you are describing is just those people not understanding precedence.

Let me see if if i got it right.
So basically you need three parts for the operator to work.

Ternary means 3 so yeah

Originally Posted by arjunajay

Is it possible to use the Ternary operator without the colon( : ).
i.e. with only one operand.

Code:

(condition)?
instead of
(condition)? true_stmt : false_stmt ;

I've heard that its very low precedence causes it to return (condition) rather than true_stmt or false_stmt when used with any operator other than assignment operators.

I have no idea what you're trying to do?
The conditional operator is basically a condensed if/else statement. So instead of writing:

Code:

if ( condition )
{
   return true_stmt;
}
else
{
   return false_stmt;
}

You want it to do this?

Code:

if ( condition );

That's just a useless conditional check...