Associativity
A relatively minor remark to conclude the discussion of the conditional operator is its right-associative behavior:
condition1 ? a : condition2 ? c : d
The preceding means the same as the following:
condition1 ? a : (condition2 ? c : d)
However, nested conditional operators tend to produce unreadable code quickly (partly due to the terse ?: syntax), so I generally recommend avoiding such use.
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