• Marxine@lemmy.ml
    01·
    1 year ago

    Having some experience with both Python and JS/TS, I don’t have much preference about ternaries or expressions. Although I always break lines for ternary statements.

    const testStuff = condition ? 
  outcome(1) :
  outcome(2);

    Having everything on the same line ruins readability for me.

    • Knusper@feddit.de
      2·
      1 year ago

      The if-else expression that Python has is quite different from (and significantly worse than) what people mean with if-else as an expression.

      So, this is Python:

      volume = 100 if user_is_deaf else 50

      These are two examples of if-else as an expression (Rust and Scala):

      let volume = if user_is_deaf { 100 } else { 50 };

      val volume = if (user_is_deaf) 100 else 50

      Crucially, these look essentially equivalent to normal if-else-statements in these languages.