The latter is what I'd consider to be the correct approach.

If the do blocks become unwieldy, you can factor them out into functions.

- James

On 7 October 2014 02:16, Mike Fikes <mikefike...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Here's a style question: If you have to conditionally do one set of side
> effects or another set, is your preference to use when and when-not, or
> an if containing do blocks? Or perhaps some other construct?
>
> In terms of a concrete example:
>
> (let [boolean-value (some-predicate?)]
>   (when boolean-value
>     (do-alpha)
>     (do-beta))
>   (when-not boolean-value
>     (do-gamma)
>     (do-delta)))
>
> or:
>
> (if (some-predicate?)
>   (do
>     (do-alpha)
>     (do-beta))
>   (do
>     (do-gamma)
>     (do-delta)))
>
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