Hello, I remember something about avoiding the usage

when

when you can go with a simple

if

But I can’t find it now… Does anyone knows where is it?

When used as an expression I often find the latter easier to read.

I think I found it https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/coding-conventions.html#if-versus-when

I find it way more balanced 🙂

this really makes me think which one would fits better…

That’s definitely something I don’t do. I don’t want to have all these symbols flying around without qualification. Also, there’s a local variable called

password

.

Got it this example of

text

and

password

doesn’t really help haha

I find

when

easier to read in assigning expressions, especially if condition/action is not short. Basically, if

if

cannot be expressed as

val x = if (flag) then y else z

, I'd prefer

when

. Few weeks ago I found very big project with code linting extremes, such as "do not use if at all, use when instead". Can't remember if this rule was applied for all

if

constructions or just an assinging expression though.

how about a compromise that’ll make everyone unhappy?

val result = when {
  foo -> "true"
  else -> "false"
}