lack of ternary operator about coffeescript HOT 2 CLOSED

Not so sure about that. I love ternary operators just as much as the next guy (probably a bit more, actually), but the syntax isn't what makes them good -- they're great because they can fit an if/else on a single line as an expression.

Their syntax is just another bit of mystifying magic to memorize, with no analogue to anything else in the language. The result being equal, I'd much rather have if/elses always look the same (and always be compiled into an expression).

So, in CoffeeScript, even multi-line ifs will compile into ternaries when appropriate, as will if statements without an else clause:

if sunny
  go_outside()
else
  read_a_book().

if sunny then go_outside() else read_a_book().

Both become ternaries, both can be used as expressions. It's consistent, and there's no new syntax to learn. So, thanks for the suggestion, but I'm closing this ticket as "wontfix".

from coffeescript.

I also like this approach better. Was first introduced by it when learning Scala, and it is shocking that it took this long for such an obvious idea to become mainstream.

from coffeescript.