Defending the ternary operator

[Paul Rubin]

"Andrew Dalke" <adalke at mindspring.com> writes:
> > Yes, it's clearer as originally written, no problem with getting
> > something swapped.
> 
> I don't understand this.  You say the original expression is
> clearer than my rewrite?  Or should that "as" be a "than"?

I mean the original version was clearer than the rewrite.

> > And so on for other examples...
> 
> And so on?  So the original C++ uses were better than the
> alternative versions I suggested were Python available?

If I remember correctly, I liked the original versions better than the
rewrites in most but not all of the examples.  I didn't feel like
going on analyzing every last one of them.