Are multiple conditional operators in this situation a good idea?

Question

I just saw this block of code on the Wikipedia article on conditional operators:

Vehicle new_vehicle = arg == \'B\' ? bus      :
                      arg ==         


        

Answer 1

I would lean toward a switch statement because the compiler will catch duplicate cases. Arguably, this is not an issue in this example but if the list gets really long and is worked on by several different people it is easy to add a duplicate and not realize it.