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From: trost@reed.UUCP (Bill Trost)
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Subject: e1?e2:e3     so, is it useful or what?
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Date: Sun, 7-Sep-86 22:30:47 EDT
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All these various examples make it quite obvious that you can do anything
without using ?:.  The question is, why would you want to?  The construct
exists as a programmer's convenience.  I also suspect (but am uncertain)
that the use of ?: is more effecient in terms of code size and speed.