Re: [pure-lang-users] null

[John L. <joh...@gm...>]

I wasn't suggesting that it should be in Pure.
I was just showing an example of a possible ? operator.
Sorry for any confusion caused.

On 26 Sep 2008, at 15:30, John Cowan wrote:

> John Lunney scripsit:
>
>> Well, I was thinking of the ternary conditional operator!
>> I don't like it, but it does exist...
>
> If you want C, you know where to find it.
>
> ?: is not even an operator, because of its non-function-like behavior.
> Algol 60 (notoriously a great improvement on most of its successors)
> distinguished between statements and expressions, and yet it managed
> to have both if-then(-else) statements and if-then-else expressions.