The conditional operator (? :) is a ternary operator (it takes three operands). The conditional operator works as follows:
- The first operand is implicitly converted to bool. It is evaluated and all side effects are completed before continuing.
- If the first operand evaluates to true (1), the second operand is evaluated.
- If the first operand evaluates to false (0), the third operand is evaluated.
The result of the conditional operator is the result of whichever operand is evaluated - the second or the third. Only one of the last two operands is evaluated in a conditional expression.
