How to Write a Spelling Corrector

Re:How to Write a Spelling Corrector by misiti3780 on Thursday September 08, 2016 @12:59PM (#12454783)

that is a great idiom. i remember the first time i saw it (possibly in is very essay), i thought it was awesome. I use it all over the place now. it is similiar to the javascript ternary operator [1], which I also find to be very useful

   var varX = (boolean) ? 'X' : 'Y'

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

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Re:How to Write a Spelling Corrector by nommm-nommm on Thursday September 08, 2016 @03:41PM (#12456574)

Pretty much every language has a ternary conditional operator: C++, Java, Python, C#, Ruby....

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Re:How to Write a Spelling Corrector by kevin_thibedeau on Thursday September 08, 2016 @07:17PM (#12458316)

This isn't the Python ternary which is:

  varX = 'X' if boolean else 'Y'

  # And is chainable in a more natural way than C*:
  varX = 'X' if boolean else 'Y' if other else 'Z'

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