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a ? b

Added by dorianmariefr (Dorian Marié) almost 3 years ago. Updated almost 3 years ago.

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[ruby-core:106041]

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It would be a shortcut for a ? b : nil:

e.g.

"#{current_path == "/" ? "font-bold"}"
"#{user.admin? ? "text-red-600"}"

Doing a && b returns false which converted to a string gives "false".

When nil converts to a string it gives "".

I would use it mostly in string interpolations.

Updated by zverok (Victor Shepelev) almost 3 years ago

puts "#{'font-bold' if true}"
# => font-bold

Updated by dorianmariefr (Dorian Marié) almost 3 years ago

Thanks, I still think the root? ? "font-bold" reads better than "font-bold" if root? though

Updated by zverok (Victor Shepelev) almost 3 years ago

Well, obviously that's a matter of personal taste, but for a one-branch if the postfix form seems to read naturally ("this item will have class "font-bold" if it is root).

So it might be that cond ? result reads better for you because you invented it starting to think from cond ? result : else (which, should we say, is quite esoteric on itself, we just got used to it)

Updated by sawa (Tsuyoshi Sawada) almost 3 years ago

"font-bold" if root? reads much better than root? ? "font-bold".

Updated by joelb (Joel Blum) almost 3 years ago

If we adopt this syntax it might be worthwhile to consider JS new colaescing operator which does the same thing, maybe it's better to keep the syntax similar to JS. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Operators/Nullish_coalescing_operator.

So basically just

a ?? b

Updated by nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada) almost 3 years ago

?? is a character literal.
As omitting the : and after makes the syntax value conflicting of course, I don't think this is acceptable.

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