From:	"John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Programming Prob.
Date:	Wed, 29 Apr 1998 18:30:08 -0400
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Bill Currie wrote:
> 
> Nate Eldredge wrote:
> > Additional trivia: If using GNU C++, you can say:
> >
> > answer = int1 >? int2;
> 
> Isn't that:
> 
> answer = int1 ?: int2;

In C, I would write it as:

answer = int1 > int2 ? int1 : int2;

I could not believe what Nate posted, because it looked so incredibly
syntactically obscure.  So I tried it with gpp and it worked.  I don't
see how it makes the operation any clearer, though.  :-)

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