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On 05/06/2024 00:12, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Jun 2024 11:41:54 -0000 (UTC), Blue-Maned_Hawk wrote:
> 
>> i think that we need not worsen the matter with new ternary operators.
> 
> These are not ternary operators.

So what are they?

I've implemented them several times, and found they really need to be 
treated as a special kind of n-ary opterator.

An AST node for A+B say would have single operator "+", and two operands.

One for "A<=B<=C" would have two operators "<=" and "<", and three operands.