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Elvis operator en · NOUN

Etymology

The notation ?: humorously reinterpreted as an emoticon representing the eyes and hairstyle of Elvis Presley.

Meanings

  1. (informal) A binary operator that returns its first operand if that operand evaluates to true, and otherwise evaluates and returns its second operand.

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Relateds

walrus operator · ternary operator

wikipedia: Elvis Presley