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I would like to have a block after elvis

```
val bar = foo ?: {
    println("foo is null!")
    return // return for block? return for what??? I don't know.
}
``` 

Is there any discussion about this? or no one interested having this feature? I know Kotlin can do this but still I want to have a block after elvis.

```
val bar = foo ?: return println("foo is null!")
val bar2 = foo2 ?: return someReturnUnitMethod()
```

shiraji: You can use `run` for an ad-hoc block:
```
val bar = foo ?: run {
    // do stuff here
    valueToUseForBar // last expression in a lambda is the value of that lambda 
}
```

Interesting. I haven’t come up with using `run`

Also `?: {doStuff()}.invoke()` or `?: {doStuff()}()`

I also wandered why is `run` called `run`.