perator.ternary_operator">Ternary
        operator</a>
      </h5>
<pre class="programlisting"><span class="identifier">if_else</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="identifier">c</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="identifier">a</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="identifier">b</span><span class="special">)</span>
</pre>
<p>
        The ternary operator deserves special mention. Since C++ does not allow us
        to overload the conditional expression: <code class="c