Stephen Colebourne said the following on 11/16/09 18:44:
In this specific case, the question was "why include it when you can use a?b:c". Well, I've seen resistance by developers to that language feature, and I know some places outright block it in coding standards. For many, a method call is preferred, and "overhead" isn't what matters.
I find such a mentality to programming to be utterly incomprehensible. Who are these people? And what motivates them?
I say let these people define their own libraries to support their pathologies - don't lumber it on the rest of the general population of programmers.
My 2c. YMMV. ;-) David Holmes
