Ternary Operator

Once upon a time I hinted that there were operators that had more than two operands.┬á This is true, but there is only one case of it in C++.┬á This is a ternary operator, the ternary operator.┬á I have found several different technical explanations of this.┬á Some say it is the ternary operator while others say it is a condition-expression using a ternary operator.┬á They are basically both right, but there is only the one ring, er ΓÇª ternary operator. J (Sorry, been reading Lord of the Rings).

So what is this damn thing IΓÇÖm talking about?┬á This particular operation, with the ternary operator, uses the question mark (ΓÇÿ?ΓÇÖ).┬á It is basically a compressed ΓÇÿifΓÇÖ/ΓÇÖelseΓÇÖ that represents a resulting value.┬á And its practically impossible to explain, let me show you an example:

01	#include <iostream.h>
02
03	main()
04	{
05	┬á┬á┬á int num;
06	┬á┬á┬á cout << ΓÇ£Enter a number (1-10):ΓÇ¥;
07	┬á┬á┬á cin >> num;
08	┬á┬á┬á num = (num < 1)?1:num;
09	}

Blargo.