conditional chaining, reincarnated

conditional chaining, reincarnated


Over the years there has been considerable interest in providing
conditional chaining functionality to jQuery, though nothing has ever
been cemented.
http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-en/browse_thread/thread/43a69fa41f6e7089/6cebfee318992fe6
http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-dev/browse_thread/thread/d82ea6dcdc9f0ab/e6be92f209194363?lnk=gst&q=ifelse#e6be92f209194363
"Cowboy" Ben Alman has just released another implementation of this
method on his blog, http://benalman.com/projects/jquery-iff-plugin/ ,
and I wanted to direct everyone's attention to it, in order to revive
discussion of the possibility of including if (and else?) methods to
the jQuery core.
In the past there has been a great deal of wrangling about the
implementation of this logic, but I'm of the mind that it is time to
get the cart out of the horse's way on this one...