# Motivation

Kotlin is very expressive language, but like Scala it lacks of ternary operator. Currently language provided alternative `if` looks a bit verbose. 
```kotlin
val result = if (myExpression) 1 else 2
```
Compared to a classical Java or C++ variant
```java
int result = myExpression ? 1 : 2
```
Unlike Scala, Kotlin allows only fixed names for operators, so we cant fully reproduce classic syntax, but we can have something similar
```kotlin
val result = myExpression % 1 / 2
```
If you want to use complex boolean expression, you can wrap it in braces
```kotlin
val result = (a == null && b > 5) % 1 / 2
```

The impcat I see here is temporaty object creation, probably `inline` can't help.