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delish on May 28, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Robust Clojure: The best way to handle nil

> ;;=> returns x if x is nil, else 5

Should this be:

> ;;=> returns x if x is not nil, else 5

dmichulke on May 28, 2018 | [–]

Corrected, thanks! (It was correct in the beginning but then I decided I need to improve it)

=> https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/verschlimmbessern

hk__2 on May 28, 2018 | [–]

`false` is not nil but `(let [x false] (or x 5))` evaluates to 5 ;)

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