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kotlin-control-flow

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Use when writing or reviewing Kotlin branching and control flow: when expressions, guard conditions, sealed type exhaustiveness, smart casts, nullable branching, early returns, or replacing complex if/else chains.

When to use

• Kotlin branching
• control flow
• when expressions
• guard conditions
• sealed type exhaustiveness
• smart casts
• nullable branching
• early returns

When not to use

• introducing guards on unsupported Kotlin versions
• forcing unrelated boolean checks into a subject when
• removing an open-world fallback
• flattening code that obscures cleanup, transactions, or errors

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