Legible or not: C# multiple ternary operators + Throw if unmatched [closed]

Answer 1

In C & C++, the described use is idiomatic and the reason for the operator. The benefit of the ternary conditional vs. a chained if-then-else is that it's an expression with a known type. In C++, you can actually write

foo_t foo = bar_p ? bar
          : qux_p ? qux
          : woz_p ? woz
          : (throw SomeExpression(), foo_t())
          ;

Notice the comma operator, which returns a foo_t that will never be constructed due to the throw.