If you don’t have to do anything in the “otherwise” block (for example: “if there is ice cream on sale, buy ice cream”, but if not ...), then the whole block “otherwise” can be omitted and the abbreviated (incomplete) form of the conditional statement can be used:
if ( condition )
{
... // what to do if the condition is true
}
Consider an example of solving the problem of finding the maximum of two numbers, using the incomplete form of the conditional statement