Defending the ternary operator

[David Eppstein]

In article <yu99k7gaagav.fsf at europa.research.att.com>,
 Andrew Koenig <ark at research.att.com> wrote:

> EXAMPLE 6:
> 
>         p = (s == NULL)? str: s;
> 
> This example sets a default value to substitute for s in case s is NULL.
> The likely rewrite:
> 
>         if (s == NULL)
>             p = str;
>         else
>             p = s;

What's wrong with using s || str in this example?

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David Eppstein       UC Irvine Dept. of Information & Computer Science
eppstein at ics.uci.edu http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/