Re: [RFC] Deprecate left-associative ternary operator
| From: | Christoph M. Becker | Date: | Wed, 24 Apr 2019 23:48:38 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [RFC] Deprecate left-associative ternary operator | ||
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On 24.04.2019 at 19:25, Sara Golemon wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 3:56 AM Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 20 years of code in the wild has not "accepted that fact and moved on". If
>> a left-associative ternary is used, it is almost certainly a bug. If people
>> use this structure by accident (because it is familiar from other
>> programming languages), I'd like them to get an error instead of having to
>> figure out why their obviously correct code is not working or, in the worse
>> case, just leave behind buggy code.
>
> I'm on dismal wifi at the moment, else I'd do some searches, but do you
> have any examples of code in the wild subject to this bug?
> I agree it's a lousy state, but it's not emergent.
See <https://externals.io/message/105345#105389>.
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Christoph M. Becker