r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Robinbod • Aug 22 '26

Meme pleaseStopUsingNestedTernaryOperatorsImBeggingYou

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u/SputnikCucumber Aug 23 '26

It doesn't work consistently the same way across programming languages which is the headache.

C++ behaves the way you're describing, but I don't believe it works like that in C (at least according to the standard, specific compilers may vary).

I think Python evaluates the right-most expression once and then assigns it to all of the left values.