AndrevanTonder scripsit:

> I do not personally like one-armed IF, but let me point out that AND/OR 
> can also be used instead of WHEN/UNLESS.  

"when" and "unless", however, nicely discard all values except the value
of the guard, which is not true of "and" or "or".  (when p a b) evaluates
b iff it evaluates a, regardless of the value of a; not so for (or p a b).

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