[erlang-questions] Orelse and andalso as short-hand for case

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On 2018年7月22日日曜日 14時25分00秒 JST Viktor Söderqvist wrote:
> Hey everyone,
> 
> I've seen these short-circuit operators with a non-boolean second
> operand, usually where the second operand is doing some side-effect and
> the return value is not important. It seems to be a trend. Example:
> 
>     Msg /= undefined andalso io:format("Message: ~s~n", [Msg]),
> 
> I this good or bad style?

That code should die in a fire and the author should say repent with
the chanting of 100 Hail McCarthys.

-Craig