Question

I once seen a -wired- operator in C++ which assigns value if greater than..

it was a combination of ?, < and =

e.g. let x = value if value is greater than x

I do not mean x=(x<value)x:value

It was some sort of x<?=value

But I can not remember it exactly, and can not find it online… Can some one remind me of it?

Thanks,

Answer 1

gcc has — in version 3.3.6 at least! — a gcc-specific language extension providing specialized operators for implementing min and max. Perhaps this is what you are thinking of?

Minimum and Maximum Operators in C++

I don’t have gcc handy to test it with, but it might have an updating form, too.