The ternary operator can be used in places where the if..else construct can't, for example in return statements, and as function arguments. The same could be achieved without ternary use, but …

It's a ternary operator (in that it has three operands) and it happens to be the only ternary operator in Java at the moment. However, the spec is pretty clear that its name is the conditional …

The ternary operator ? is a way of shortening an if-else clause, and is also called an immediate-if statement in other languages (IIf(condition,true-clause,false-clause) in VB, for example).

Which ternary operator are you talking about? A ternary operator is any operator that takes three arguments. If you're talking about the ? : operator, this is called the conditional operator. I can't …

The ternary operator can be used to combine two expressions but an empty statement is not an expression. A method invocation can be used as an expression if the method returns a value …

I've read comments saying not to use the ternary operator because it's confusing, but that is a bad reason to not use something. By the same logic we shouldn't use regular expressions, range …

I would avoid using the ternary operator in situations that require if/else if/else, nested if/else, or if/else branch logic that results in the evaluation of multiple lines. Applying the ternary operator …

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10 The ternary operator in just about every language works as an inline if statement:

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