madvoid:
I'm very glad you told me that! The code actually uses this sytax later on and I was wondering what it did. Do the question mark and colon operators have any special names so i can look them up?
Yes indeed. The question mark denotes the thing that happens if "X" is true and the colon denotes the thing that happens if "X" is false.
Here's an example (pseudo code):
what_is_larger = (moon < sun) ? "The sun" : "The moon"
The test condition is "moon less than sun". Since the moon is smaller than the sun, "(moon < sun)" evaluates to "TRUE". Therefore, the string after the QUESTION MARK is the one that is placed into the variable "what_is_larger".
I could also write it this way:
what_is_larger = (moon > sun) ? "The moon" : "The sun"
Since, in this case, "(moon > sun)" is FALSE, the string after the COLON is placed into the variable "what_is_larger".
Got it?