Guards Guards – small gotcha in Elixir guard expressions

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• turtleyacht 6 hours ago ago

  Elixir does not short-circuit its if-then either:

    if false or true do
      IO.puts("did not short-circuit (?)")
    end
  

  Maybe because `if' is a macro, the whole expression is sent in for evaluation:

  https://elixir-lang.readthedocs.io/en/latest/intro/5.html#if...