perlmeditation Melly <p>A couple and half of monks (I'm the half ;) think that the ?: operator-pair is always less readable than an if/else block.</p> <p>As indicated, I half-agree, but I wonder if this is more a case of "I don't use or am not familiar with ?:, and therefore it's obfuscated" or "I understand the syntax of ?: perfectly, but I still think it makes code hard to read and/or maintain".</p> <p>The maintainability issue is a tricky one, but, given that ?: is not an operator-pair limited to perl, is it unreasonable to expect any code-maintainer to understand it? (or at least make the effort to find out about it?)</p> <p>What's the consensus on this one?</p> <!-- Node text goes above. Div tags should contain sig only --> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-66612"> <code> map{$a=1-$_/10;map{$d=$a;$e=$b=$_/20-2;map{($d,$e)=(2*$d*$e+$a,$e**2 -$d**2+$b);$c=$d**2+$e**2>4?$d=8:_}1..50;print$c}0..59;print$/}0..20 </code> Tom Melly, pm@tomandlu.co.uk </div></div>