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From: Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de>
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Subject: Re: Programming style question
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 22:11:06 +0200
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Tim Streater wrote:
> In article <cP4vbFDDoChQFwQo@invalid.uk.co.demon.merlyn.invalid>,
> Dr J R Stockton <reply1242@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> wrote:
>
>>  console.info( (n||"No") + " results" ) ; // ??
> 
> I find constructs such as this to be unreadable. I never use them since
> I don't want to spend 20 mins figuring it out the first time, and
> another 20 mins convincing myself it's correct each time I come across it.

If I'm not mistaken the following expression evaluates to true for all a,b:

(a ? a : b) === (a || b)

So (a || b) could be seen as short-cut for the ternary operator.

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Christoph M. Becker