Does Groovy's ternary conditional operator support statements, not just expressions?

Question

Is it possible to include statements with expressions with Groovy's conditional operator? This is what I'm doing now, and I want break this down in a single conditional statement with the println statements...

if(!expired){
  println 'expired is null'
  return true
}
else if( now.after(expired)){
  println 'cache has expired'
  return true
}
else
  return false

Converted into single statement...

return (!expired) ? true : (now.after(expired)) ? true : false

...would like to do something like this for debugging purposes...

return (!expired) ? println 'expired is null' true : (now.after(expired)) ? println 'cache has expired' true : false

Answer 1

As GrailsGuy said in the other answer, use closures:

def expired= false, expired2= true
return (!expired) ? 
  {println "expired is null"; true}() :
  (expired2) ? {println "cache has expired"; true}() : false