Too many uses of ternary operators can increase costs

CostSoftware AgilityCode Readability

Too many uses of ternary operators can increase costs

Count one violation each time the operator (… ? … : …) is used.

Grep “?” character except in java when it is involved in a wildcard notation (<?) of generic types.

Example : are excluded “List<?>” or “List<? extends T>

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Why you should care


Business Impacts

It is recommended to avoid these in order to ensure the code is more readable and cost effective.

Cost

CAST recommendations

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