`with` construct usage question - variables in `else`

[silverdr]

@stefanchrobot

The else clause was there from the beginnings of with

This source says: " As of Elixir 1.3, with/1 statements support else", which I interpret that it was added in 1.3. Correct me if I am wrong or the source is wrong.

@josevalim

I generally find having more than one clause in else an anti-pattern. We either use it as a “catch-all”, otherwise I prefer to have each function in with already return the proper types, as shown in your last example

I surely would prefer that too. But the reason why I wanted to use with was actually that I didn’t have that kind of comfort and it looked like an easy/elegant way of integrating a flow of different, non homogeneous steps without building a large, nested if/case bow.