I noticed in the 1.7.4 version the condition IF to handle its own scope, and it does not allow to persist the variable inside and neither do modifications of variables, I wonder why this change Example: Input: a = 23 if true, do: a = 4 Output: a = 23 I wonder if there is any documentation abo…

a = 23 if(true, do: a = 4) warning: variable "a" is unused Note variables defined inside case, cond, fn, if and similar do not leak. If you want to conditionally override an existing variable "a", you will have to explicitly return the variable. For example: if some_condition? do atom =…

As a side note: It is always possible to refactor such ‘assignments from within if-statements’ code to more functional code by assigning the outcome of the if-statement to something:

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garecinos4 November 26, 2018, 6:24pm 3

Thanks