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Re: To David, Ralf (3), Lewis, Joe (2),

• Posted by Robert B Pilkington <bpilkington at JUNO.COM> Jun 24, 1998
• 613 views

>>    This is why I want a ?: operator. Unfortunately ?x is already
>>    used for print(1,x)puts(1,'\n') so we need another operator e.g. ~:
>>
>>    ? sequence(a) ~ length(a) : 1
>
>Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!
>You do love mysteries don't ya ?!!
>Cuz, that is precizely what the above is, a walking mystery.

Well, let's see, I think that means:

atom x
if sequence(a) then
    x = length(a)
else
    x = 1
end if
? x

So that means we can have a function! :)

global function tildewasquestionmark(atom boolean, object o1, object o2)
    -- If boolean is true then return o1, otherwise return o2, and
    -- it's only 4 or 5 statements! :) (Dunno if 'else' is counted.)
    if boolean then
        return o1
    else
        return o2
    end if
end function

? tildewasquestionmark(sequence(a), length(a), 1)

(You may want to change the function name to something a little more
understandable... :) Although the current method is probably more
understandable than what it was.. ;)


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