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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Suggestion: implement ternary conditionals","articleBody":"C-style ternary conditionals would be a handy addition to the language.\r\n\r\nFor instance, instead of writing:\r\n\r\n```powershell\r\nif ((get-date).tostring(\"ss\") % 2) { 'odd'  } else  { 'even' }\r\n```\r\n\r\none could write:\r\n\r\n```powershell\r\n(get-date).tostring(\"ss\") % 2   ?   'odd'   :    'even'\r\n```\r\n\r\nIt would also relieve a long-standing disappointment:\r\n\r\n\u003e At Microsoft, “to ship is to choose”.  One of the things we were very disappointed in not being able to ship in V1.0 is a ternary operator.\r\n\r\nFrom a [PowerShell Team blog post](https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/powershell/2006/12/29/diy-ternary-operator/) dated 29 December 2006.\r\n\r\n---\r\n\r\nRelated: [implement null-coalescence and null-soaking and null-conditional assignments](https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/issues/3240)","author":{"url":"https://github.com/mklement0","@type":"Person","name":"mklement0"},"datePublished":"2017-03-02T20:06:34.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":52},"url":"https://github.com/3239/PowerShell/issues/3239"}