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[–] fubo 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] AlmightySnoo 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] dot20 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ah, I understand now. The expression is evaluated like this:

  • $a == 1 ? "one" : $a == 2 ? "two" : $a == 3 ? "three" : "other"
  • $a == 2 ? "two" : $a == 3 ? "three" : "other"
  • "two" ? "three" : "other"
  • "three"
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

@AlmightySnoo @dot20 hooooo 🤯!! Thank you for the solution! 🤓

[–] fubo 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

If you think PHP is weird, go look up ZZT-OOP, the scripting language from Tim Sweeney's first game.

(No, a scripting language for game characters doesn't need integers. If you need to count, you can do that by moving blocks around on the game board. It's halfway between LOGO and Minecraft.)

[–] proflovski 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I would expect this from Javascript :S

[–] fubo 2 points 2 years ago

ZZT came out in 1991. JavaScript didn't exist for at least four years after that.