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docs: hacking: Discourage use of the ternary operator and ban it's abuse

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Forbid breaking lines inside the two branches of the ternary operator
and nesting them. Using it in these instances does not help readability.

Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
ACKed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
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@ -847,6 +847,17 @@ BAD:
if (!nfoos)
if (nfoos)
</pre>
<p>New code should avoid the ternary operator as much as possible.
Specifically it must never span more than one line or nest:
</p>
<pre>
BAD:
char *foo = baz ?
virDoSomethingReallyComplex(driver, vm, something, baz->foo) :
NULL;
char *foo = bar ? bar->baz ? bar->baz->foo : "nobaz" : "nobar";
</pre>
<h2><a id="preprocessor">Preprocessor</a></h2>