Editing Ternary conditional operator (section)

===Case selectors===
When properly formatted, the conditional operator can be used to write simple and coherent case selectors. For example:

<syntaxhighlight lang="c">
vehicle = arg == 'B' ? bus :
          arg == 'A' ? airplane :
          arg == 'T' ? train :
          arg == 'C' ? car :
          arg == 'H' ? horse :
                       feet;
</syntaxhighlight>

Appropriate use of the conditional operator in a variable assignment context reduces the probability of a bug from a faulty assignment as the assigned variable is stated just once as opposed to multiple times.