True. I actually thought about the same 'if' special form when formulating my response (I've been playing a lot with Clojure lately, and your other_function lo

True. I actually thought about the same 'if' special form when formulating my response (I've been playing a lot with Clojure lately, and your other_function looks a lot like a functional conditional when compared to an if/else), but figured that most people would be viewing this stuff through a more typical imperative lens, in which case, those constructs (if/else vs other_function) would likely be different.