It’s more of an ifelse, since all its args are eagerly evaluated (think & vs &&, and why there is not an and function equivalent to &&). Use on real code™ can lead to significant penalty, if “else clause” args are computational intensive. What about a macro variant @something ? macro something(x, …

`something` function is not that much useful with eager args eval, what about a macro one?

fredrikekre November 28, 2021, 6:37am 2

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