# A switch type function

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/a-switch-type-function/13491>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
**Tags:** control-flow\
**Created:** [August 15, 2018, 8:45am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/a-switch-type-function/13491 "2018-08-15T08:45:57Z")\
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Less verbose (and builtin) is chained ternaries. With indentation they can be quite readable for short expressions like these:

```julia
n = 1.0
m = n ≤ 0.1 ? 0.0 :
    0.1 < n ≤ 0.6 ? 1.0 :
    0.6 < n ≤ 0.8 ? 1.1 :
    0.8 < n ≤ 1.0 ? 1.2 :
    1.0 < n ≤ 1.3 ? 1.35 :
    #= otherwise =# 2.2

```

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