From: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2020 19:26:19 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC v2 1/1] refspec: add support for negative refspecs
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In-Reply-To: <xmqqk0xo53pi.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>

On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 10:55 AM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
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> > The `?:` operator is not supported e.g. by Visual C. Let's not use it.
>
> Thanks.  IIRC that was GNU extension?
>

Yea, probably.

From wikipedia, [1], "In GNU C and C++ (that is: in C and C++ with GCC
extensions), the second operand of the ternary operator is optional.
This has been the case since at least GCC 2.95.3 (March 2001), and
seems to the original elvis operator."

Thanks,
Jake

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_operator