Re: Replacing the "if" statement with an "if" expression which supersedes it

Le 26/06/2026 à 20:08, Andrey Dobrovolsky a écrit :
> Hi Calimero,
>
> I'm glad that You like community proposed snippets so much. I'd like
> to propose a pair of even easier to understand
>
>     (select(a and 1 or 2, b, c))
>
>     ({[true] = b, [false] = c})[a]
>
> Hope You'll enjoy ))
>
> -- Andrew
I sense sarcasm, but actually there is something to say here.
In the second case, b and c would be both evaluated. And if they have effects, the effects / side effects of both b and c would happen.

This is why `if` has such a special status: it is not eager, it executes only one of the branches.

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