Saturday, December 06, 2008

tricky ternary operators

by jokiz via jokiz : C# on 12/6/2008 6:19:00 AM

i has been one year since I haven't been posting in this blog, hmmm.  wow, time is really that fast.  one year and I haven't done much actually, just work and DOTA. Not at all productive and pretty much lagging with the current technologies out there.  I don't even had the time to read my tech blog feeds in google reader.  Time to catch up (hopefully).

Let's start with a piece of code that I bumped into recently in migrating some of the business rules in our bank application.  See if you can easily deduce what the code actually meant and suggest something to make it readable:

bool isReduced = (!isReduced) ? hasExceed : true

some coding guidelines doesn't recommend the use of ternary operators since they find it hard to read.  i'd say, not all the time, but the code above had a hard time expressing his intent to me, ;p.