# 056. Standards committee has approved conditional expressions
topic: {ref}`conditionals`
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@arclight The standards committee has approved conditional expressions, with
y = ( i>=1 .And. i<=Size(a) ? a(i) : -Huge(y) )
equivalent to
if (i>=1 .And. i<=Size(a)) then
y = a(i)
else
y = -Huge(y)
end if
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