Nesting ternary operators makes code more complex and less clear. Let's investigate other ways to write conditional expressions.
  • spartanatreyu@programming.dev
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    11 months ago

    Pretty sure they meant match as in pattern matching, not switch as in switch/case/break.

    You can see the proposal here: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-pattern-matching

    • snowe@programming.dev
      ·
      11 months ago

      they also said switch expressions, which indicates they want the switch statement to be settable directly to a variable with whatever the return type of the switch is.

    • JakenVeina@lemm.ee
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      11 months ago

      Nah, I meant switch, as that's what it's called in C#-land. See above.

      That proposal for matching looks interesting, but not quite the same, no.

      • spartanatreyu@programming.dev
        ·
        11 months ago

        Are you sure?

        Your C# example:

        var output = input switch
{
    null    => "Null",
    0       => "Zero",
    > 0     => "Positive",
    _       => "Negative"
};

        JS proposal for match:

        const output = match input {
    when null:    "Null";
    when 0:       "Zero";
    if input > 0: "Positive";
    default:      "Negative";
}