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?: (conditional operator)
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?:	can shorten code but can also make code harder to understand
	has right to left associativity
	has purpose to evaluate the expression on the left and return one value if the expression is true and a different value if the expression if false
	has syntax result = (condition) ? doSomething() : doSomethingElse(); If condition is true, then result is set to the expression following the question mark, otherwise result is set to the expression following the colon
	has syntax expression ? op1 : op2
	is a subtopic of Operators
	is an instance of operator
	is an instance of tertiary operator
	returns the value of the selected expression
	is a synonym of conditional operator
operator	evaluates to its result
	is part of an expression
	is evaluated before another operator with lower precedence
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