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Re: Simple if-exercises

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On 04/01/2015 08:10 PM, Stefan Ram wrote:
>    I was looking for very simple if-exercises.
>
>    I usually found exercises like this:
>
>        »Print "positive" if x > 0, "non-positive", otherwise.«
>
>    The expected answer would be
>
> if( x > 0 )
> System.out.println( "positive" );
> else
> System.out.println( "non-positive" );
>
>    However, I already have taught »?:«, so the better
>    (shorter) solution would be:
>
> System.out.println( ( x > 0 ? "" : "non-" )+ "positive" );
>
>    . Do you know a very simple if-exercise whose solution
>    cannot be written more tersely with the ternary operator
>    or where the formulation with »if« is clearly better than
>    with the ternary operator?
>
>    Knowledge that can be assumed: calls and declarations of
>    static methods, +, -, *, /, usage of variables, declarations
>    of local variables, boolean, int, double, String, literals,
>    the block {...}, ?:, <, >, <=, >=, !=, ==.
>
Why don't we have a Quinary operator?
x ? y LT : EQ : GT

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