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Comment by z3t4 | Hacker News Reader

Stop using (nested) ternary operator's ! Use if-statements!

  if(val==1) var res = 1;
  if(val==2) var res = 2;

Except ternary expressions have the huge advantage that they allow assigning to const. Eg:

    const var =
      val == 1 ? 1 :
      va1 == 2 ? 2 :
      null;

It's hard to argue about not using const, but can you remember any time where const actually prevented a bug !?

There's real value in the fact that ternary operators form expressions, which if statements don't.

Could you elaborate ? I think the only difference is readability, where I favor if-statements over expressions.