Carl Banks wrote:
That's not what I was asking for. I was asking for a use case for "if x" that can't be replaced by a simple explicit test. Your example didn't satisfy that.
It's a completely artificial request. "if x" _is_ a completely simple test. Simpler, in fact, than the ones you were advocating.
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