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Groovy has an interesting shortening of the ternary operator that it rather fancifully titles “the Elvis Operator“. This operator is hardly unique to Groovy - C# has had it since 2.0 in the form of the Null Coalescing Operator - but that doesn’t mean that it is not a language feature worth learning from. Surprisingly (for a C-derivative language), Scala entirely lacks any sort of ternary operator. However, the language syntax is more than flexible enough to implement something similar without ever having to dip into the compiler.