Why there is no ternary operator in kotlin?

Kotlin implements if statement as an expression, so it returns a value. Since if expression can return a value, we can achieve the ternary (?) functionality using if expression.

TernaryDemo.kt

fun main(args: Array<String>) {
 
 var a : Int = 10
 var b : Int = 20
 
 val max = if (a > b) a else b
 
 println("Maximum element is : $max")
}

Output

Maximum element is : 20

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