I just realized ternary operator is called that way because it handles THREE things at once
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Yeah, it's a really silly name that should be retired. You can have many different ternary operators! It's named that way purely because there are no other examples of ternary operators in languages with C-derived syntax.
I think the formal name is actually "ternary conditional operator", but it gets abbreviated to "ternary operator" because there are no other ternary operators in most languages (except array indexing! but nobody calls it "ternary array access operator" haha)
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I wish more languages supported arbitrary infix/mixfix operator declaration though. being limited to binary operators is a drag haha
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