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From: Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com>
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Subject: Re: nested ternary discovery
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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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