As pointed out (and hopefully unsurprisingly), using if+else is indeed the idiomatic way to do conditionals in Go. In addition to the full blown var+if+else block of code, though, this spelling is also used often: index := val if val <= 0 { index = -val } and if you have a block of code … Read more
When your first argument is null, they’re basically the same except that the null coalescing won’t output an E_NOTICE when you have an undefined variable. The PHP 7.0 migration docs has this to say: The null coalescing operator (??) has been added as syntactic sugar for the common case of needing to use a ternary … Read more
This is a one-line shorthand for an if-else statement. It’s called the conditional operator.1 Here is an example of code that could be shortened with the conditional operator: var userType; if (userIsYoungerThan18) { userType = “Minor”; } else { userType = “Adult”; } if (userIsYoungerThan21) { serveDrink(“Grape Juice”); } else { serveDrink(“Wine”); } This can … Read more
ternary operator ? : is just short form of if/else case “$b” in 5) a=$c ;; *) a=$d ;; esac Or [[ $b = 5 ]] && a=”$c” || a=”$d”
In Kotlin, if statements are expressions. So the following code is equivalent: if (a) b else c The distinction between expression and statement is important here. In Java/C#/JavaScript, if forms a statement, meaning that it does not resolve to a value. More concretely, you can’t assign it to a variable. // Valid Kotlin, but invalid … Read more