Hugo Mills wrote:
>    Yet one more reason to avoid ternary operators... (If you haven't
> guessed yet, I'm not a fan of the whole concept. I've rarely met a use
> of the ternary operator, in any language, that made code easier to
> read.)
>
>    Hugo.
>   
I use the following fairly regularly when writing debug output:
object == null ? "null" : object.getText();
Or similar. But only for debug output, I don't use ternary for main line 
flow control, too much chance of someone else misunderstanding in the 
future.