<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>This looks reasonable in declarations but how would it work in expressions? Or are you suggesting that it is only usable for declarations?<br><br>Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>On Dec 22, 2015, at 9:25 AM, Angelo Villegas via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>I for one feels like the ternary operator still has a future with Swift.<br class=""><br class="">If the discussion with ternary will go on though, I would like to weigh in a suggestion:<br class=""><br class=""><font face="Courier" class=""> let a | x == y = a<br class=""> | otherwise = b<br class=""><br class=""> let b | colour.Red = 0xff0000</font><div class=""><font face="Courier" class=""> | colour.Green = 0x00ff00</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class=""> | colour.Blue = 0x0000ff</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class=""> | otherwise = 0x000000<br class=""></font><br class="">My rule of thumb for a style like this is that if you can read it as if it was English (read | (bar) as "when", | otherwise (bar otherwise) as "otherwise" and = as "is" or "be"), you're probably doing something right.</div>
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