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		adastra22 on March 14, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: When or If Would if/else have been considered optimal to you if you hadn’t already been conditioned (ha!) that way by other programming languages? “When” actually seems better in a purely declarative language.

andreareina on March 15, 2022 | [–]

Maybe it's prior exposure to lisp, but I wouldn't expect "when" to have an "else" clause. Can't think of an idiomatic natural-language case with that structure either.

IshKebab on March 15, 2022 | [–]

I have never used SASS and if/else is obviously better than when/else.

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