This is the ternary conditional operator, which can be used anywhere, not just the print statement. It’s sometimes just called “the ternary operator”, but it’s not the only ternary operator, just the most common one. Here’s a good example from Wikipedia demonstrating how it works: A traditional if-else construct in C, Java and JavaScript is written: if … Read more
There are several places colon is used in Java code: 1) Jump-out label (Tutorial): label: for (int i = 0; i < x; i++) { for (int j = 0; j < i; j++) { if (something(i, j)) break label; // jumps out of the i loop } } // i.e. jumps to here 2) … Read more
If Python doesn’t have a ternary conditional operator, is it possible to use other language constructs to simulate one? 3 31 Yes, It was added in version 2.5. The expression syntax is: a if condition else b First condition is evaluated, then exactly one of either a or b is evaluated and returned based on … Read more
As you’ve found, JavaScript doesn’t support operator overloading. The closest you can come is to implement toString (which will get called when the instance needs to be coerced to being a string) and valueOf (which will get called to coerce it to a number, for instance when using + for addition, or in many cases … Read more
