Re: Readability question.

"'Sainan' via lua-l" <[email protected]> Fri, 05 Jun 2026 11:08:19 +0000

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If you have to ask, it's probably not readable. I would make the conditional an actual conditional:

if a and b then
    x = combine(a, b)
else
    x = a or b
end

Now, one might also be able to see more obviously that if a=nil and b=nil then x=nil, so one could write `x = a or b or error()` in the else clause if that's undesired.

-- Sainan

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