[progress Communities] [progress Openedge Abl] Comment On Conditional / Ternary Operator

[Arno van der Ende]

Hi Frank, yes, that's the normal IF... THEN... ELSE statement, like other languages also have, but sequentially also have the ternary operator. Example how this could be in 4GL: result = (random(1,100) mod 2 = 0) ? "even" : "odd". In the end not that different, except it becomes a bit more readable, because it is shorter. Certainly in messages or logging this is handy to have. For example: LOG-MANAGER:WRITE-MESSAGE ("Good morning " + (p.female ? "Miss " : "Mister ") + p.name)

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