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| From | Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.awk |
| Subject | Re: nested ternary discovery |
| Date | 2025-10-11 18:46 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <20251011114253.330@kylheku.com> (permalink) |
| References | <10c866d$2lhr4$1@dont-email.me> <68e8bf90$0$671$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <20251010100336.109@kylheku.com> <68ea9764$0$672$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> |
On 2025-10-11, Mack The Knife <mack@the-knife.org> wrote:
> In article <20251010100336.109@kylheku.com>,
> Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> wrote:
>>On 2025-10-10, Mack The Knife <mack@the-knife.org> wrote:
>>> { print animal[$1] }
>>>
>>> Much simpler, and each additional sound/animal pair requires
>>> only one additional line of code.
>>
>>Without function indirection (Gawk extension), or an eval feature
>>(doesn't exist in any Awk I know), you cannot dispatch actions, only
>>substitute values for keys.
>
> So what? The OP wasn't looking for a way to dispatch actions.
Nested/cascaded ternary will do that:
cond1 ? increment_this++
: cond2 ? call_this()
: foo[this] = that
It's just not shown in the minimal example where it yields
string literal values.
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Re: nested ternary discovery mack@the-knife.org (Mack The Knife) - 2025-10-10 08:10 +0000
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Re: nested ternary discovery mack@the-knife.org (Mack The Knife) - 2025-10-11 17:44 +0000
Re: nested ternary discovery Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> - 2025-10-11 18:46 +0000
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