Which ternary operator are you talking about?
A ternary operator is any operator that takes three arguments.
If you're talking about the ? : operator, this is called the conditional operator. I can't live without it anymore, personally. If-else statements look so messy to me, especially when doing a conditional assignment. Some complain that it looks messy, but it is still possible (especially if using Visual Studio or another intelligent-formatting IDE) to make things easily readable, and you should be commenting all your conditionals anyway.
