is it a better way of doing this? I would expect s...

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[Chi]

is it a better way of doing this? I would expect something like a guard in swift

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[Luke]

val firstName = person?.firstname ?: return false would be my way to go if you need to use firstName subsequently. I would use the if otherwise. You can consider using .let{} maybe. But that’s about it afaik