ternary requires space about civet HOT 4 CLOSED

This is either a documentation bug or a compiler bug. 🙂

We have been discussing recently whether to make a?b shorthand for a?.b (an extension of #1327). In fact, I was inclined to implement this very soon. But it would mean that a?b:c wouldn't be a valid ternary. Which do we want?

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For now I think we should note it in the docs. We may be able to accommodate both with proper look-ahead but we'd need to make sure all the edge cases work out correctly.

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Ah, fair, I think it's reasonable to require no spaces around the colon when there's no spaces around the question mark in a ternary, and this could probably be supported together with a?b.

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I've gone ahead and documented the current behavior. Supporting tight ternary x?y:z is still interesting, but I found it difficult to add in my first attempt (given the current parser, which wants to greedily match an expression before looking for ternary suffix ?...:...).

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