Ternary operators and Return in C

Question

Why can\'t we use return keyword inside ternary operators in C, like this:

sum > 0 ? return 1 : return 0;

Answer 1

The return statement is used for returning from a function, you can't use inside ternary operator.

 (1==1)? return 1 : return 0; /* can't use return inside ternary operator */

you can make it like

return (1==1) ? 1 : 0;

The syntax of a ternary operator follows as

expr1 ? expr2 : expr3;

where expr1, expr2, expr3 are expressions and return is a statement, not an expression.