What's the idiomatic way to conditionally apply a ...

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[Jonathan Lennox]

What's the idiomatic way to conditionally apply a with to a potentially null argument? I have code looking generally like

with(myObject.statistics) {
   debug.addNumber(stat1)
   debug.addNumber(stat2)
}

but the statistics can be null if myObject isn't in the right state.

[Jonathan Lennox]

I can add a if (this != null) block inside the with but that feels clunky?

[ascii]

Why not swap it out for run?

myObject.statistics?.run {
    debug.addNumber(stat1)
    debug.addNumber(stat2)
}

[Jonathan Lennox]

That works, thank you!