Enable the ternary operator to evaluate builtin calls #1405
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Currently, the ternary operator can only works to evaluate strings and integers. This PR tries to include builtin calls:
Although if-else statement can server the purpose, using ternary can be more concise especially when users run bpftrace in comand line. In bpftrace, builtin calls have
none
types so it makes sense for the ternary operator to support them. Resolves #1333.Checklist
docs/reference_guide.md
CHANGELOG.md