Do nothing when “other side” of ternary operator is reached?

Question

Note: I\'ve seen this question asked sometimes before (a, b, c), but neither of these was in C#, nor helpful.

Assume I\'m using the ? : ternary

Answer 1

You can't. The whole point of the conditional ?: operator is that it evaluates an expression. You can't even just use:

Foo() ? Bar() : Baz();

... because that isn't a statement. You have to do something with the result... just like when you access a property, for example.

If you want to only execute a piece of code when a specific condition is met, the ?: operator isn't what you want - you want an if statement:

if (foo)
{
    bar();
}

It's as simple as that. Don't try to twist the conditional operator into something it's not meant to be.