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		userbinator on Oct 16, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to Get Fired Using Switch Statements and State... I don't see how either of those is simpler than `string x = y ? "foo" : "bar";` or if y can take more values than 0 or 1, then that strongly suggests it should become a table lookup: `string x = some_strings[y];`

usefulcat on Oct 16, 2020 [–]

I think the point is more the general technique, not this particular usage of it.

Regarding the ternary, nested ternary expressions aren't the most readable thing.

Regarding table lookup, sure but only if all values of y are sequential integers.

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