Um, just a general opinion question: does Kotlin r...

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[Egor Trutenko]

Um, just a general opinion question:
does Kotlin really need ternary operator?

[gildor]

If you want to read more opinions, check this discussion
https://discuss.kotlinlang.org/t/ternary-operator/2116

[Egor Trutenko]

Thanks, tho I wanted a bit more fresh opinions

[gildor]

Do you think arguments changed some how? %)

[Egor Trutenko]

Fair point :^)

[gildor]

I use Kotlin for about 2.5 years and never want to have ternary operator, especially now

[gildor]

In 90% of cases people use it in Java to check for null

[Egor Trutenko]

Yeah, me neither. It's just that there's a hot discussion was set off in russian tg chat, so I referred to another source of opinions

[gildor]

I think mostly it’s just nagging of newcomers rather than real need to have ternary operator in the language

[hudsonb]

need? no. Would I like to have it? Yes

[gildor]

This is actually a really good reason do not introduce a new language feature

[diego-gomez-olvera]

IMHO the lack of ternary operation is pretty good, as it pushes Java developers to use if as an expression, driving them from mutability/statements thinking to immutability/expressions, which generally lead to more robust software