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[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

On the left you have Elvis Presley, while on the right there's the so-called Elvis operator

[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

why would you call it anything other than the ternary operator

[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 1 points 1 hour ago

Read further down on my other comment to understand, it's just how the operator looks

[–] Cube6392@beehaw.org 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

been programming since 2008. the fuck is an elvis operator?

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 8 points 21 hours ago

Been programming since the 80s, ditto.

[–] luciferofastora@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ternary if?then:else

[–] Cube6392@beehaw.org 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

gotacha. i've only ever heard them called ternaries. maybe i'm old. maybe i'm too young. definitely one of the two

[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 6 points 21 hours ago

It specifically refers to this shorthand ?: that works like this:

$value = $thing_that_could_be_truthy ?: 'fallback value';

# same as

$value = $thing_that_could_be_truthy ? $thing_that_could_be_truthy : 'fallback value';

The condition is also the value if it is truthy