<Idiomatic way to assign value if not null> I want...

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Idiomatic way to assign value if not null
I want to archieve this:
val foo = if (getNullableValue() != null) getNullableValue() else computeDefaultValue()

What I don't like about it is the repetition of getNullableValue(). Trying to get rid of the repetion I came up with this:
val foo = getNullableValue()?.also{}?: run { computeDefaultValue() }

Not sure if that's considered idiomatic though. And the IDE warns about the empty body of also. Is there a better way to archive this?