Question

Im reading some code, and I encountered the following ternary expression. how would you translate the following ternary operator to regular if statements?

 ( (vowel) ? ((consonant) ? "ay" : "yay") : "")

Answer 1

Something like this:

if(vowel) {
    if(consonant) {
        return "ay"
    } else {
        return "yay"
    }
} else {
    return ""
}

Note that I’m using return because ternary operator is an expression while if is a statement in Java, thus it doesn’t have a value. You must wrap this in a method returning String.