ternary operator

[Dan Bishop]

Andrew Koenig <ark at research.att.com> wrote in message news:<yu99smuyaiyd.fsf at europa.research.att.com>...
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> Indeed -- this is the best evidence that Ada is the result of a military
> project.  In what other language is "or else" an operator?

Babbage (http://www.tlc-systems.com/babbage.htm) uses it as a
"conditional threat" ("Add these two numbers OR ELSE!").

But if you meant whether there's an "or else" in a language that
people actually program in, I don't know of any.