Why is there no space in front of the ?. At first I didn’t even realize that this was supposed to be the ternary operator.

One can tell you’re a quality poster for putting a reference to a freaking programming meme. It is an overkill, but a quality overkill.

if (a < b) {
    return true;
} else if (b < a) {
    return false;
} else {
    return "A == B, bro"
}