Guards Guards – small gotcha in Elixir guard expressions

1 points by hauleth 5 days ago | 1 comment

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:

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