Concepts: Conditional logic

Short essays on the ideas underneath if, truthiness, and structural pattern matching. The "ah, that's why" layer beneath the syntax — read once and keep coming back to when something surprises you in practice.

Essays in this section

• Why truthiness works the way it does — the design choice that lets any object answer "am I meaningful here?", and the trade-off against explicit comparisons.
• Structural pattern matching in context — what match/case actually solves (destructuring + branching in one), how it differs from switch, and when not to reach for it.