note 12241 deleted from pear.standards.control by zak

This page STRONGLY recomends using braces and I agree. But sometime I like to use the following one-liner for predictably simple situations. ($expression) ? true_action() : default_action() ; This is the equivilent to the more traditional if ($expression) { true_action() ; } else { default_action() ; } Notice that the first method does not allow for "elseif" case statements. It also does not allow for empty default statements (do nothing by default). Instead you would use if ($expression) true_action() ; //splitting this onto 2 lines would be confusing But I think PEAR recommends against this. However, I think there are a small few situations where you know the statement will _always_ be elemental (a single instruction - like a function call).