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I don't know if that makes me happy or sad... if if was an object, or function that took a lambda...

Wouldn't that get really messy? For example, what would you return from an `if` function that took a lambda, such that you could call `else` on it, but also so that `else` was only syntactically valid with a corresponding `if`, and also so that the return value of the if-else expression was the type you wanted?

Kotlin is designed to be pragmatic rather than to have some overarching design principle like "everything is lambdas".