Comments on: Game dev in Scala II http://blog.finiteimprobability.com/2008/03/05/game-dev-in-scala-ii/ Just programming and math, no spontaneously jumping undergarments Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:30:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: James Iry http://blog.finiteimprobability.com/2008/03/05/game-dev-in-scala-ii/comment-page-1/#comment-2 James Iry Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:35:46 +0000 http://blog.finiteimprobability.com/?p=13#comment-2 <p>"Since Scala doesn't have a ternary operator (that I know of"</p> <p>It does - Scala's "if" works like both Java's if and ternary operator. Without an else it always returns unit and you would only call it for side effects. With an else it returns the result of the expression evaluated.</p> <p>g.setColor(if(s1.intersects(s2)) Color.red else Color.green)</p> “Since Scala doesn’t have a ternary operator (that I know of”

It does – Scala’s “if” works like both Java’s if and ternary operator. Without an else it always returns unit and you would only call it for side effects. With an else it returns the result of the expression evaluated.

g.setColor(if(s1.intersects(s2)) Color.red else Color.green)

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