Is there a way to reference the value being checke...

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[dblack]

Is there a way to reference the value being checked in a when statement? I could obviously store the value locally, just trying to be succinct.

when (someCalculatedValue()) {
   1 -> doSomething(/*use value here*/)
   else -> log("nothing")
}

[mg6maciej]

dblack: doSomething(1) 😉

[dblack]

Bleeeeet. Happy Monday 😆 More readable that way.

[dblack]

I want to log in the else statement though (my example was bad)

[dblack]

Basically... hey, you shouldn't have gotten to the else statement, but we'll log the value that got you here anyways.

[mg6maciej]

I suspected that.

[mg6maciej]

Just val value = call() then when (value) {, but you know that.

[mg6maciej]

It's weird how people try to bend the language instead of using the simplest constructs. Good example is variable?.let { } with else if value is null.