Why break cannot be used with ternary operator?

Question

while(*p!=\'\\0\' && *q!=\'\\0\')
{
        if(*p==*q)
        {
               p++;
               q++;
               c++;
        }
        else
        b         


        

Answer 1

When you use a ternary operator, it is not like an if. The ternary operator has this form:

(condition ? expression_if_true : expression_if_false);

Those two expression must have the same type, otherwise that makes nonsense.

And as Thilo said, you cannot use statement in this operator, only expression. This is because the whole ternary operator must be an expression itself, depending on the condition.