Expressing conditionals with boolean logic
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Certain simple conditional forms can be expressed in a simpler manner using boolean logic.

The following two lines are equivalent:
[ drop f ] unless swap and

The following two lines are equivalent:
[ ] [ ] ?if swap or

The following two lines are equivalent, where L is a literal:
[ L ] unless* L or