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Elvis operator

In certain computer programming languages, the Elvis operator, often written ?:, is a binary operator that returns the first operand if its value is logically true (according to a language-dependent convention, in other words, a truthy value) or returns its second operand if the first operand is not true. That is, it is a short-circuit OR, which returns…

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Languages supporting the Elvis operator

C++GCCApache GroovyPHPFantom
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Alternative syntaxes

Common LispClojureLuaObject PascalPerl
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Computer programmingBinary operatorTruthyShort-circuitORTernary conditional operator
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Elvis operator

Nodes39
Edges38
Triples46
Avg. degree1.95
Density0.051282
Components1

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Elvis operator

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related to Languages supporting the Elvis operator · 31
Elvis operator → CFML, December, Elvis, Finally, GCC, GNU, Gosu, Groovy, In, In Apache Groovy, In Ballerina, In ColdFusion, In GNU, In Google's Closure Templates, In JavaScript, In Kotlin, In Perl, In PHP, Instead, June
related to Alternative syntaxes · 12
Elvis operator → Boolean, Clojure, Common Lisp, Elvis, In, JavaScript, Lua, Object Pascal, Perl, Python, Ruby, These
related to Boolean variant · 2
Elvis operator → Elvis, In
is a · 1
Elvis operator → null coalescing operator

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operator elvis returns operand ternary null truthy value languages short-circuiting first conditional boolean otherwise second coalescing written object logical programming

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Elvis operatoris anull coalescing operator0.90text
Elvis operatorrelated to Alternative syntaxesIn0.60section
Elvis operatorrelated to Alternative syntaxesCommon Lisp0.60section
Elvis operatorrelated to Alternative syntaxesClojure0.60section
Elvis operatorrelated to Alternative syntaxesLua0.60section
Elvis operatorrelated to Alternative syntaxesObject Pascal0.60section
Elvis operatorrelated to Alternative syntaxesPerl0.60section
Elvis operatorrelated to Alternative syntaxesPython0.60section
Elvis operatorrelated to Alternative syntaxesRuby0.60section
Elvis operatorrelated to Alternative syntaxesJavaScript0.60section
Elvis operatorrelated to Alternative syntaxesElvis0.60section
Elvis operatorrelated to Alternative syntaxesBoolean0.60section

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