Erik Max Francis max at alcyone.com
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Samuele Pedroni wrote:

> you should see the ambiguity.

It's not ambiguous in the parser sense.  Since what immediately follows
the `if' keyword in an if statement is an expression, the second `if'
clearly starts a conditional operator, not another if statement (I mean,
how could it?)

It's only "ambiguous" in the sense of being deliberately obtuse that
someone would use a conditional operator in the conditional expression
of an if statement (say that three times fast).  The same is true in any
language with conditional operators; crappy code is crappy code.

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