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[–] AlmightySnoo 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] dot20 19 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

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

I would expect this from Javascript :S

[–] fubo 2 points 1 year ago

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