Why Ternary operator in not called a binary Operator or ternary Operands ?
question ? answer1 : answer2 When it takes 2 operators ?
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It's basically: if a then b else c which is three parts.
And it’s by extension from binary operation, which is the standard term for the + in a + b.
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I believe, Instead of ternary conditional operator it should be ternary conditional operation as three input operands is called ternary operation in mathematics
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Operator is
- Types of operators:
- Arithmetic: +, -, *, /
- Comparison: ==, !=, >, <
- Logical: &&, ||, !
- Assignment: =, +=, -=
Operands is [a-z], [A-Z]
It brings confusion from Maths to Programming
It’s a conditional operator that takes three inputs, so calling it ternary conditional operator doesn’t seem like a big stretch.
Regardless, I’m not the person you need to convince here. If you want to discuss this with Swift language folks, I recommend that you bounce over to Swift Evolution.
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