Equivalent to (a ? b : c) ?

[Gaetan Corneau]

> (Perl anyone?)  

Thanks, but no, thanks.

> But really, I think it's a bit much to ask for a
> readable version of ?: since the original construct is itself a bit of
> a disaster for readability IMO...

It's really not that bad if you don't imbricate them. And "?" is very useful
in ctor initialisation lists. But I don't miss the operator that much in
Python. I can live with a little function that emulates it, even if it can't
do short-circuit evaluation.
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