Proposal: Conditional operator inside condition

[mmaderic]

Hi,

I've encountered situation where this might be lovely syntax sugar if possible.
Enable conditioning conditinal operator.

For example I have condition statement where I would compare two equal items either with <= or < operators depending on some other condition.

Current solution is:

if (someCondition
                    ? (itemA < itemB)
                    : (itemA <= itemB))
                {
                    // do something
                }

Proposed solution

if(itemA (condition ? < : <=) itemB)
{
   // do something
}

[quinmars]

if (itemA < itemB || (!someCondition && itemA == itemB))
{
}

That's in my eyes more readable: "Go on, if itemA is smaller than itemB. If some condition is not fulfilled, we also accept equality of itemA and itemB."

[MgSam]

Sounds like a very niche use case. I suggest just making a method or a custom IEqualityComparer if you're doing this frequently.

[mmaderic]

I agree it might be something we are mostly used to, but I had to think for a second about your solution to verify its corectness instead having instant readability which ternary operators might provide. .. Im fan of ternary, maybe thats why :) and we are excluding double itemA and itemB specification.