[erlang-questions] if-elseif-else trick

[Raimo Niskanen]

On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 08:20:33PM +0200, andrei zavada wrote:
> One neat (for some definition of 'neat') trick to do away with `true`
> for the semantic `else` is `el/=se` (spotted in riak code).
> 

Oh dear!  That's creative, actually quite readable, and should compile to
literal 'true'.

You can also use a macro: -define(else, true).
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/ Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB