1-line idiom to replace if blocks

[Jonathan P.]

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I hate code that takes up too many lines and
have come up with the ff. idiom to replace
many 4 line if statements:

result=[value-if-false,value-if-true][condition]

This idea could also be applied as a compact
switch block replacement in certain cases.









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