The ternary operator: more than one way to do it?

[Erik Max Francis]

Thomas Wouters wrote:

> pluswverbs = index == 1 ? pluswverbs ? length(pluswverbs) > 1 ?
> {{@pluswverbs[1], {i, verbname}}, @pluswverbs[2..$]} :
> {{@pluswverbs[1], {i,
> verbname}}} : {{{i, verbname}}} : (index == length(pluswverbs) ?
> {@pluswverbs[1..$ - 1], {@pluswverbs[$], {i, verbname}}} : (index >
> length(pluswverbs) ? {@pluswverbs, {{i, verbname}}} :
> {@pluswverbs[1..index
> - 1], {@pluswverbs[index], {i, verbname}}, @pluswverbs[index +
> 1..$]}));

Any language feature can be abused.  The writer of the abuse is to blame
for such misuses, not the language.

> (It's not Python, it's MOO, written by me about 8 years ago :)

I rest my case.

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