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		masswerk on June 29, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Programming Patterns I Like Regarding nested ternaries, while not recommended, short circuit evaluations may be even more readable: return ( (cA && cB && "A & B") \|\| (cA && "A") \|\| (cB && "B") \|\| "neither" );

foota on June 29, 2019 [–]

Quick, it's another case of Javsacript Stockholm Syndrome!

masswerk on June 30, 2019 | [–]

:-)

However, this would also work in Perl, etc, (anything featuring short-circuit evaluation and type coercion for evaluating conditions.)

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