something like "if" that returns a value?

[Erik Max Francis]

John Roth wrote:

> The 'and' 'or' hack is the cannonical way of doing this. It short
> circuits properly, and it returns the value of the expression that was
> evaluated.

... but does not work as expected when the "then" expression evaluates
to false.  It's important to not forget that when using it, which is one
of the reasons it is unappealing.

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