Usage of the Conditional Ternary operator to reduce brace and newline waste when processing optional method parameters

conditional-ternary-eliminate-waste.php

<?php

class Coordinate
{
    protected $x;
    protected $y;
    
    public function __construct($x = null, $y = null)
    {
        (empty($x)) ?: $this->setX($x);
        (empty($y)) ?: $this->setY($y);
    }
    
    /* What we're trying to replace
    public function __construct($x = null, $y = null)
    {
        if ($x) {
            $this->setX($x);
        }  
        if ($y) {
            $this->setY($y);
        }
    }
    */
    
    public function setX($x)
    {
        $this->x = $x;
    }
    public function setY($y)
    {
        $this->y = $y;
    }
}

How is this any better/worse than:

if ($x) $this->setX($x);

It's not. I think our coding standard has always shunned brace-less if statements.