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pmiller2 on Dec 29, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Do I Really Need a Programming Language?

That produces a different AST than the if/else because it's an expression. :)

goldenkey on Dec 29, 2013 [–]

Every LISP statement is an expression too. So if you were trying to match them, you'd use the ternary.

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